Barefaced
[beə'feɪst] or ['bɛrfest]
Definition
(a.) With the face uncovered; not masked.
(a.) Without concealment; undisguised. Hence: Shameless; audacious.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Undisguised, unreserved, unconcealed, palpable, conspicuous, glaring, notable, notorious.[2]. Impudent, presumptuous, shameless, audacious.
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Examples
- My pride rose against this barefaced way of pointing out the contrast my married life was to present to my then dependent and inferior position. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Miss Ophelia was so indignant at the barefaced lie, that she caught the child and shook her. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The father, who affected a high and rigid gravity, discountenanced all barefaced immorality. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
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