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- adjective
Impudent ; open and withoutshame .
Etymologies
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Examples
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This brazen-faced Li Faa would believe herself the source of life and the first ancestor, recognizing no ancestors before her.
THE TEARS OF AH KIM 2010
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Hewers of wood and drawers of water, princes and potentates, shy-shrinking maidens and brazen-faced hussies, all saying, "I am going to be married."
Kempton-Wace Letters 2010
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He believed her to be simply a vulgar, interfering, brazen-faced virago.
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“An actual emanation from Satan, sent to those parts to devour souls” will trump “a vulgar, interfering, brazen-faced virago” every time.
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He believed her to be simply a vulgar, interfering, brazen-faced virago.
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“An actual emanation from Satan, sent to those parts to devour souls” will trump “a vulgar, interfering, brazen-faced virago” every time.
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She went and came, bearing her head well up, with a bitter smile, and was conscious that she was becoming brazen-faced.
Les Miserables 2008
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He was a small man of about fifty, brisk, wrinkled, frail, yellow, brazen-faced, feverish, who had a sort of sickly feebleness about all his limbs and his whole person, and an immense force in his glance.
Les Miserables 2008
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It is so strongly to the interest of men in office to believe in ready-made capacity, and in brazen-faced merit, that it is downright childish of the learned to expect material rewards.
The Magic Skin 2007
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The generation to experience the Messianic transition is to be “brazen-faced as a dog”, is to “thirst for the words of G-d”, and so on.
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