bald-faced

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bald-faced

(bôld′fāst′)

adj.

1. Brash; undisguised: a bald-faced lie.

2. Zoology Having a white face or face markings.

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Adj.	1.	bald-faced - (of animals) having white markings on the face faced - having a face or facing especially of a specified kind or number; often used in combination; "a neatly faced terrace"
	2.	bald-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, brazen-faced, insolent, audacious, barefaced, bodacious, brassy unashamed - used of persons or their behavior; feeling no shame

bald-faced

adjective

Characterized by or done without shame:

barefaced, blatant, brazen, brazenfaced, shameless, unabashed, unblushing.

Informal: brassy.

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"I see him myself," he said; "I see him coming along by the Crab- tree Meadow on a bald-faced hoss.

'You'll get a bit o' barley to-day, Knowles,' I says, 'if you look about you'; and then I went round by the rick-yard, and towart the Treddles'on road, and just as I come up by the big ash-tree, I see the man i' top-boots coming along on a bald-faced hoss--I wish I may never stir if I didn't.

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In short, he was looked upon as a bald-faced grizzly from the Arctic wilds to whom it was considered expedient to give the trail.

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Imagine, if you can, a bald-faced hornet of your earthly experience grown to the size of a prize Hereford bull, and you will have some faint conception of the ferocious appearance and awesome formidability of the winged monster that bore down upon me.

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I used to think, when you first come into these parts, as you were no better nor you should be; you were younger a deal than what you are now; but you were allays a staring, white-faced creatur, partly like a bald-faced calf, as I may say.

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Bald-faced hornets construct large paper nests in trees and large shrubs at head height and above, so look in the tree canopies as you work in the garden.

Wasps, hornets are beneficial pollinators

Taking up the culture of bald-faced lies that autocrats use to hold political power, Hans Pool's 2018 "Bellingcat: Truth in a Post-Truth World" profiles the "citizen investigative journalist" organization (Bellingcat) and touts the promise of open-source investigative journalism in this age of "alternative fact."

Fest of human rights docs opens Thursday

Resorting bald-faced fabrications in order to belittle Palestinians, to say that despite the enormous aid the US had extended them all these years -- aid unprecedented in history -- what Americans "have to show for it is really not much", as Kushner put it in his speech, should be beneath it.

Misleading the world on Palestine

Although in a bald-faced lie he stated that he was a "revolutionary," we were speechless upon learning that he had scores of African-American servants, to whom he referred as--I kid you not--"my slaves." Only in Trump's America.

Memo from Harvard Admissions

But on the contrary: his bald-faced effort to protect himself from the court's reach looks more like an act of desperation for a man who appears deeply implicated in alleged crimes against humanity," Singh said.

ICC prosecutor: Initial inquiry continues despite Philippine withdrawal

Because no one should be allowed to tell a bald-faced lie and get away with it.

Fake news, nothing more

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