barefacednessn.
Openness, effrontery, shamelessness.
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unshamefulnessc950
unshamefastness?a1400
shamelessness1540
unshameless1555
shamefastness1589
unshamefacedness1596
flagrancy1599
blatancy1610
flagrance1634
brass1642
frontlessness1698
barefacedness1702
bronze1729
coolness1751
shamefacedness1827
bold-facedness1832
brazenness1861
unblushingness1891
1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. ii. 117 They resorted..to Mass..with the same barefacedness.
1826 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 30 Sept. 30 The barefacedness of the lie.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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