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
Do you mean to tell us that she was brazen-faced enough to confess such a thing?
From The Man Without a Memory by Marchmont, Arthur W. (Arthur Williams)
It struck him that this brazen-faced giant might be useful, later on.
From Blood and Iron Origin of German Empire As Revealed by Character of Its Founder, Bismarck by Greusel, John Hubert
Really these Treumanns were a brazen-faced race; audacious East Prussian Junkers, who thought themselves as good as or better than the best.
From The Benefactress by Elizabeth
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