Brazen-faced

  

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Brazen-faced

Definitions: Brazen-faced

Brazen-faced

Adjective

1. 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.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "brazen-faced" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1880. (references)


Specialty Definitions: Brazen-faced

DomainDefinitions

Literature

Brazen-faced Bold (in a bad sense), without shame.
"What a brazen-faced varlet art thou!"
Shakespeare: King Lear, ii, 2. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Slang in 1811

BRAZEN-FACED. Bold-faced, shameless, impudent. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Brazen-faced

Synonyms: audacious (adj), barefaced (adj), bodacious (adj), bold-faced (adj), brassy (adj), brazen (adj), insolent (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Brazen-faced

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Insolence

Bluff; brazen, shameless, aweless, unblushlng, unabashed; brazen, boldfaced-, barefaced-, brazen-faced; dead to shame, lost to shame.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Brazen-faced

Specialty definitions using "brazen-faced": BRAZEN-FACEDCORINTHIANS. (references)

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Modern Translations: Brazen-faced

Language Translations for "brazen-faced"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

脸大面对. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

azen-facedbray

   

Russian 

  

наглый (assured, barefaced, bold, brassy, brazen, brazenfaced, flip, immodest, impertinent, impudent, insolent, perky, saucy, snippy, unashamed, unblushing, uppish), бесстыдный (blatant, graceless, impudent, shameless, unblushing). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Brazen-faced

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-d-e-e-f-n-r-z"

-2 letters: barefaced.

-3 letters: brazened, credenza.

-4 letters: afeared, aneared, cadenza, defacer, enfaced, fazenda, recaned, refaced, zareeba.

-5 letters: abrade, afeard, arcade, arcane, bander, barfed, beaned, bender, braced, brazed, brazen, canard, carafe, careen, cedarn, craned, crazed, dancer, deafen, deafer, decane, decare, decern, deface, earned, endear, enface, facade, farced, feared, feazed, fenced, fencer, fender, fraena, nacred, neared, razeed, recane.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Brazen-faced


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 72 61 7A 65 6E 2D 66 61 63 65 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01110010 01100001 01111010 01100101 01101110 00101101 01100110 01100001 01100011 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#114 &#97 &#122 &#101 &#110 &#45 &#102 &#97 &#99 &#101 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0072 0061 007A 0065 006E 002D 0066 0061 0063 0065 0064

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

368467927180157267697170

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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