brazen-faced
Americanadjective
adjective
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Origin of brazen-faced
First recorded in 1565–75
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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
The remark came from a brazen-faced girl waiting for a bus.
From Adventures of Bindle by Jenkins, Herbert George
The more they are used, the worse the poor bees are off: just as the more a man uses the lying nostrums of the brazen-faced quack, the further he finds himself from health and vigor.
From Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee A Bee Keeper's Manual by Langstroth, L. L. (Lorenzo Lorraine)
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
Young man, I advise you not to be impudent or brazen-faced.
From The Tin Box and What it Contained by Alger, Horatio
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