brazen-facedadj.
/ˈbreɪz(ə)nfeɪst/ a. With bold unblushing front, impudent, unabashed.
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the mind > emotion > pride > impudence > [adjective] > shameless
shamelessc897
unshamefasta1100
unshamedc1384
unshamefulc1430
unshamousa1500
unshamefaceda1533
unshameless1555
blushless1566
brazen-faced1571
brazen1573
bashless1578
brassy1596
foreheaded16..
foreheadlessa1603
frontless1607
browless1615
basilisco-proof1649
inverecund1657
perfrict1660
brazen-broweda1682
barefaced1704
cool1723
unblushing1736
brassed1742
inerubescent1788
bald-faced1836
bronzed1841
brazen-fronted1842
brazed1884
1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (xii. 5) With such brazenfaste boldnesse.
1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear vii. 25 What a brazenfac't varlet art thou, to deny thou knowest mee. View more context for this quotation
1619 Pasquils Palinodia sig. B4v Blush (if you can) and are not brazen faced.
1677 R. Gilpin Dæmonol. Sacra i. xiii. 103 Such open and brazen-fac'd assertions.
1846 Sir R. de Coverley II. 182 The brazen-faced termagant.
b. humorously, of things.
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1864 M. E. Braddon Doctor's Wife i. 5 A big, new, brazen-faced house in the middle of the queer old High Street.
Derivatives
ˈbrazen-facedly adv. /-feɪstlɪ/
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the mind > emotion > pride > impudence > [adverb] > shamelessly
shamelesslyc897
unshamefastly1382
unshamefullyc1400
unshamelyc1480
shamelessa1541
blushlessly1604
frontlessly1618
brazen-facedly1624
with (an) open face1653
barefacedly1684
brazenly1714
unblushingly1752
coolly1844
blatantly1851
1624 T. Gataker Discuss. Transubstant. 174 Onely boldly and brasin-facedly avouching that, etc.
1829 Wilson in Blackwood's Mag. 25 384 She looked at you brazen-facedly.
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