brazen-faced
Americanadjective
adjective
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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
I consequently trust that you will find some way to suppress your brazen-faced protégé.
From The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette by Lighthall, W. D. (William Douw)
She not only gave up witchcraft, but ceased to be brazen-faced and a shrew: so that people bruited this matter as a miracle, and a handsome one it was.
From Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England by Marson, Charles L. (Charles Latimer)
She steadfastly answered that she would never speak ill of anybody; but the girl was a brazen-faced wench, and he was no better.
From The O'Ruddy A Romance by Williams, C. D. (Charles D.)
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
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