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“You know, Hunt, how shamefully he has been behaving, and I appeal to you to say whether it is not barefacedness to come in and treat us as though nothing had occurred,” appealed the mother.

From Holman Hunt Masterpieces in Colour by Coleridge, Mary E.

The expression in the family's combined eyes was astonishing in its directness, its barefacedness.

From Peg O' My Heart by Manners, J. Hartley

Then there was another very ludicrous phase of this oriental, not to say transcendental, potentate’s barefacedness.

From Black Ivory by Pearson, Francis B.

How can persons, therefore, have the barefacedness to apply such reasoning to the Catholics of the present day, respecting the Gunpowder Plot.

From Two Addresses One to the Gentlemen of Whitby and the other, to the Protestant Clergy by Rigby, Nicholas