brazen-faced
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- brazen-facedly adverb
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
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 Kemble, Fanny
Impudent, im′pū-dent, adj. wanting shame or modesty: brazen-faced: bold: rude: insolent.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
And he has the brazen-faced assurance to say, that the first image he had of Almanzor, in the "Conquest of Grenada," was from the Achilles of Homer!
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 by Various
The remark came from a brazen-faced girl waiting for a bus.
From Adventures of Bindle by Jenkins, Herbert George
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