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Barefacedly

Definition: Barefacedly

Barefacedly

Adverb

1. Without shame; "he unashamedly abandoned the project when he realized he would not gain from it".

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

Date "barefacedly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1690. (references)

Synonyms: Barefacedly

Synonyms: shamelessly (adv), unashamedly (adv). (additional references)
Antonym: ashamedly (adv). (additional references)

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Modern Translations: Barefacedly

Language Translations for "barefacedly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏بوقاحة (boldly, with impudence). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

耻地 (shamelessly). (various references)

   

French

  

impudemment. (various references)

   

German

  

freche (boldfaced, cheeky, insolently). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

""스럽게 (shamelessly). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

arefacedlybay.(various references)

   

Swedish

  

oblygt. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

явно (apparently, audibly, decidedly, decisively, evidently, it is evident, obviously, overtly, professedly, signally, visibly), зухвало, безсоромно (obscenely). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Barefacedly"

Words rhyming with "barefacedly" (pronounced 'Bare"faced`ly'): Abstractly, Bellicosely, Braggingly, Brainsickly, Circumscriptly, Complexly, Counterfeitly, Counter-paly, Dilly-dally, Epicurely, Expeditely, Ferforthly, Foremostly, fortnightly, Gor-belly, half-hourly, half-yearly, Handfastly, housewifely, Hurly-burly, Hyperduly, Ingrately, Innermostly, Lilly-pilly, loblolly, Manifoldly, Morphophyly, naively, Nonchalantly, Orthodoxly, Paramountly, Pasilaly, Pot-belly, Qualifiedly, redbelly, Rightwisely, Rolly-poly, Sawbelly, Speckled-belly, Swagbelly, Tilly-vally, tread-softly, Triweekly, uniformly, uprightly. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Barefacedly

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-d-e-e-f-l-r-y"

-1 letter: defrayable.

-2 letters: barefaced.

-3 letters: bayadeer, bayadere, defrayal, faceable, federacy, readable, readably.

-4 letters: afeared, alcayde, already, beeyard, belaced, belayed, bleared, caldera, cleared, craaled, creedal, debacle, decayer, declare, deerfly, defacer, delayer, dryable, dyeable, fadable, federal, layered, refaced, relaced, relayed.

-5 letters: abrade, afeard, alcade, arable, arcade, balder, barely, barfed, barfly, barley, bayard, beadle, beflea, belady, belfry, blared, bleary, braced, brayed, bready, byrled, cabled, carafe, celery, cereal, clayed, cradle, credal, deafer, deafly, dealer, dearly, decare, deface, deflea, defray, drably, dyable, eyebar, fabled, fabler, facade, faecal, farced, fardel, feared, feebly, flared, flayed, flayer, fleecy, fleyed, frayed, freely, leader, leafed, reclad, redbay, redefy, reface, relace.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Barefacedly


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

42 61 72 65 66 61 63 65 64 6C 79

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-...    .-    .-.    .    ..-.    .-    -.-.    .    -..    .-..    -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01000010 01100001 01110010 01100101 01100110 01100001 01100011 01100101 01100100 01101100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#97 &#114 &#101 &#102 &#97 &#99 &#101 &#100 &#108 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0061 0072 0065 0066 0061 0063 0065 0064 006C 0079

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

3667847172676971707891

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INDEX

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


  

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