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
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)
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
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
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 Trollope, Anthony
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