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
The remark came from a brazen-faced girl waiting for a bus.
From Adventures of Bindle by Herbert George Jenkins
Young man, I advise you not to be impudent or brazen-faced.
From The Tin Box and What it Contained by Horatio Alger
“Well, of all the brazen-faced men I’ve ever met—” she began.
From The Revellers by Louis Tracy
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 William Gannaway Brownlow
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