brazen-faced
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of brazen-faced
First recorded in 1565–75
Example Sentences
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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
Hewers of wood and drawers of water, princes and potentates, shy-shrinking maidens and brazen-faced hussies, all saying, "I am going to be married."
From The Kempton-Wace Letters by London, Jack
They naturally became each day more lazy and dissolute; and little Julia more bold and brazen-faced.
From The Dangerous Classes of New York And Twenty Years' Work Among Them by Brace, Charles Loring
I've seen two or three poachers in my time, but for brazen-faced lyin' I've never seen your match.
From Young Barbarians by Maclaren, Ian
Indignant women, forgetting the softness of sex, had arisen in just wrath to execute this brazen-faced apostle of mammon.
From Mixed Faces by Norton, Roy
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