[
UK
/bˈeəfeɪst/
]
ADJECTIVE
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with no effort to conceal
a barefaced lie -
unrestrained by convention or propriety
brazen arrogance
an audacious trick to pull
bald-faced lies
the most bodacious display of tourism this side of Anaheim
the modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress
a barefaced hypocrite
How To Use barefaced In A Sentence
- The most barefaced collective silk stockings most strong on history is lured!
- Their demand for pensions deserves, said the national paper, ‘this week's, perhaps this year's, award for barefaced cheek’.
- While it took a certain amount of courage to not wear eyeliner and mascara, I cannot recommend going barefaced highly enough
- Add in personal self enrichment from expense fiddles, petty corruption and barefaced lying to that toxicosis. Archive 2008-11-01
- It's barefaced robbery asking such a high price for that old bicycle!
- His nose changed from the natural copper hue which it had acquired from many a comfortable cup of claret or sack, into a palish brassy tint, and his teeth chattered with apprehension at the unveiled audacity of my proposal, which seemed to place the barefaced plunderer before him in full atrocity. Rob Roy
- In the latter case the back strip may have a short barefaced blind tenon which is mortised into the upright, Fig. 278. Handwork in Wood
- Unfortunately, going barefaced isn't always an option; after all, you need to look polished for work and special occasions such as weddings.
- Instead, the reconstruction racket has been characterised by infrastructure repair that never happens, overpricing for construction and barefaced fraud.
- But those who understand this issue will recognise that this measure is nothing more than a barefaced attempt at buying votes into the future.