Hypertext Webster Gateway: "barefaced"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Barefaced \Bare"faced`\, a.
1. With the face uncovered; not masked. ``You will play
barefaced.'' --Shak.
2. Without concealment; undisguised. Hence: Shameless;
audacious. ``Barefaced treason.'' --J. Baillie.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
barefaced
adj 1: with no effort to conceal; "a barefaced lie" [syn: {bald}]
2: 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 [syn: {audacious}, {bodacious}, {bold-faced},
{brassy}, {brazen}, {brazen-faced}, {insolent}]
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