BAREFACED

audacious, barefaced, bodacious, bald-faced, brassy, brazen, brazen-faced, insolent

(adjective) 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; “bald-faced lies”; “brazen arrogance”; “the modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress”- Bertrand Russell

bald, barefaced

(adjective) with no effort to conceal; “a barefaced lie”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

barefaced (comparative more barefaced, superlative most barefaced)

Undisguisedly offensive and bold; crude; coarse; brazen

Open, undisguised

Unbearded (not having a beard or other facial hair)

Source: Wiktionary


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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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