Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having no covering over the face.
- adjective Having no beard.
- adjective Unrestrainedly bold; brazen. synonym: shameless.
from The Century Dictionary.
- With the face uncovered; not masked.
- Undisguised: unreserved; without concealment; open: in a good or an indifferent sense.
- Undisguised or open, in a bad sense; hence, shameless; impudent; audacious: as, a barefaced falsehood.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective With the face uncovered; not masked.
- adjective Without concealment; undisguised.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Undisguisedly offensive and bold; crude; coarse;
brazen - adjective
Open ,undisguised - adjective
Unbearded (not having a beard or other facial hair)
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective unrestrained by convention or propriety
- adjective with no effort to conceal
Etymologies
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Examples
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"And such I call barefaced and downright wantonness and waste," interrupted his sturdy disputant.
The Prairie James Fenimore Cooper 1820
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Not surprisingly, folks using the word barefaced were open to shifting the adjective into the metaphoric realm: barefaced soon came to describe something
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Alex Salmond's critique of the Coalition Government has been called 'barefaced cheek' Simon Johnson, Scottish Political Editor
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Simon Johnson 2011
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Expect I will be called a barefaced liar and what not now, accused of smearing Tim etc.
Archive 2007-08-01 2007
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This is called a barefaced tenon, and it will be noticed that the portion which carries the mortise is thicker than the rail on which the tenon is cut.
Woodwork Joints How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used. William Fairham
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"We are seeing more reports of new discoveries and populations because this region is relatively poorly known, particularly when it comes to cryptic and less fashionable groups like fish and amphibians," said Mahood, whose group this year announced finding the first nest of white-eared night heron in Vietnam and the discovery of a baldheaded song bird in Laos called the barefaced Bulbul Pycnonotus hualon.
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"We are seeing more reports of new discoveries and populations because this region is relatively poorly known, particularly when it comes to cryptic and less fashionable groups like fish and amphibians," said Mahood, whose group this year announced finding the first nest of white-eared night heron in Vietnam and the discovery of a baldheaded song bird in Laos called the barefaced Bulbul Pycnonotus hualon.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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Not only did he originate new words but also familiar compounds, such as "barefaced,"
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I got the distinct impression that most bloggers were not keen to do 'barefaced' commenting … indeed many declared it wouldn't last and for all sorts of reasons, none of which frankly convinced me much.
unknown title 2008
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I got the distinct impression that most bloggers were not keen to do 'barefaced' commenting … indeed many declared it wouldn't last and for all sorts of reasons, none of which frankly convinced me much.
unknown title 2008
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