Meaning of BAREFACED
| Pronunciation: | | 'behr'feyst
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- [adj] 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; "bold-faced lies"; "brazen arrogance"; "the modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress"- Bertrand Russell
- [adj] with no effort to conceal; "a barefaced lie"
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| | Synonyms: | | audacious, bald, bodacious, bold-faced, brassy, brazen, brazen-faced, insolent, open, overt, unashamed |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Bare"faced`\, a.
1. With the face uncovered; not masked. ``You will play
barefaced.'' --Shak.
2. Without concealment; undisguised. Hence: Shameless;
audacious. ``Barefaced treason.'' --J. Baillie.
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| | Related Terms: | | arrant, audacious, aweless, bare-ankled, bare-armed, bare-backed, bare-breasted, bare-chested, bare-handed, bare-headed, bare-legged, bare-necked, blatant, blunt, bold, bold as brass, boldfaced, brassy, brazen, brazenfaced, candid, cheeky, downright, forward, frank, immodest, impertinent, impudent, indecent, indecorous, insolent, lost to shame, manifest, open, out-and-out, outright, overbold, pert, plain, saucy, shameless, sheer, swaggering, topless, unabashed, unalloyed, unblushing, unconcealed, undiluted, undisguised, unmitigated, unseemly |
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