brazen-faced

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brazen-faced

adj

shameless or impudent

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bra′zen-faced`

adj.

openly shameless; impudent.

[1565–75]

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Adj.

brazen-faced - unrestrained by convention or propriety; "an audacious trick to pull"; "a barefaced hypocrite"; "the most bodacious display of tourism this side of Anaheim"- Los Angeles Times; "bald-faced lies"; "brazen arrogance"; "the modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress"- Bertrand Russell

brazen, insolent, audacious, bald-faced, barefaced, bodacious, brassy

unashamed - used of persons or their behavior; feeling no shame

Translations

brazen-faced

adj → schamlos, unverschämt

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--On the city of the obtrusive, the brazen-faced, the pen-demagogues and tongue-demagogues, the overheated ambitious:--

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At last the minute-hand of the old-fashioned brazen-faced timepiece was on the last quarter to eight, and there was every reason for its being time to get ready for departure.

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Dost thou presume To approach my doors, thou brazen-faced rogue, My murderer and the filcher of my crown?

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The good ships Law and Equity, those teak-built, copper-bottomed, iron- fastened, brazen-faced, and not by any means fast-sailing clippers are laid up in ordinary.

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That brazen-faced hussy who calls herself Lady Clarinda is married, and she sends him nosegays three times a week!

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The two great merits of a stage proprietor, in England (judging by the rare applause of his cultivated customers), consisted in spending plenty of money on his scenery, and in hiring plenty of brazen-faced women to exhibit their bosoms and their legs.

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However, PDP wasn't this brazen-faced in its assault on morality and basic decency.