brazen-faced
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of brazen-faced
First recorded in 1565–75
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"How brazen-faced can a man be?" fumed Hojatolislam Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, speaker of the Iranian parliament.
From Time Magazine Archive
She is a marvellous actress, and without exception the most brazen-faced woman I ever beheld, and that is saying a great deal.
From Records of Later Life by Fanny Kemble
I moved on towards St. Peter's, and he still kept guard there as brazen-faced as ever.
From My Unknown Chum by Charles Bullard Fairbanks
And you, Antony, whom I have never injured by a word, why is it that, more brazen-faced than Catiline, more fierce than Clodius, you should attack me with your maledictions?
From The Life of Cicero Volume II. by Anthony Trollope
Do you mean to tell us that she was brazen-faced enough to confess such a thing?
From The Man Without a Memory by Arthur W. (Arthur Williams) Marchmont
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