| 单词 | barefaced |
| 释义 | barefaced (once / 11016 pages) adj If masked means hidden, barefaced means unconcealed. If you get caught speeding and reach into your wallet and hand the officer $20, that’s a barefaced attempt at a bribe. Barefaced — or as it's sometimes known, bald-faced — behavior is always bold and sometimes shameless. While nonchalantly telling a jewelry store security guard that you "plain forgot" you'd slipped the necklace into your pocket is a barefaced lie and shameless to boot. A reporter's barefaced questioning of a mayor found to be stealing from city treasury carries no shame, at least for the reporter. WORD FAMILYbarefaced: barefacedly USAGE EXAMPLESRather than tell barefaced lies, Moscow should perhaps boast – and warn the world – of its new-found proficiency. The Guardian(Dec 30, 2016) Later, he uttered a line that belongs in the Hall of Fame for barefaced whoppers: “Nobody has more respect for women than I do. Nobody.” The New Yorker(Oct 20, 2016) His political hero is Vladimir Putin, who has perfected what John le Carré once called the “classic, timeless, all-Russian, barefaced whopping lie.” Seattle Times(Oct 04, 2016) 1adj with no effort to conceal a barefaced lie Syn bald open, overt open and observable; not secret or hidden 2adj unrestrained by convention or propriety a barefaced hypocrite Syn audacious, bald-faced, bodacious, brassy, brazen, brazen-faced, insolent unashamed used of persons or their behavior; feeling no shame |
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