brazen-faced

American  

[brey-zuhn-feyst] / ˈbreɪ zənˌfeɪst /

adjective

1. openly shameless; impudent.

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brazen-faced British  

adjective

1. shameless or impudent

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Other Word Forms

• brazen-facedly adverb

Etymology

Origin of brazen-faced

First recorded in 1565–75

Example Sentences

"How brazen-faced can a man be?" fumed Hojatolislam Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, speaker of the Iranian parliament.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Brown, I regard your address, under all the circumstances, as a display of the most brazen-faced assurance and the most unmitigated impudence I ever met with in my life!

From Americanism Contrasted with Foreignism, Romanism, and Bogus Democracy in the Light of Reason, History, and Scripture; In which Certain Demagogues in Tennessee, and Elsewhere, are Shown Up in Their True Colors by Brownlow, William Gannaway

Mirescul met me in the most brazen-faced way; he protested against such inroads undertaken from motives of personal revenge.

From The Chief Justice A Novel by Franzos, Karl Emil

Thou brazen-faced Head, hath my master tooke all these paines about thee, and now dost thou requite him with two words, Time is?

From Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland by Adams, W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport)