Associations to the word «Barefaced»
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Wiktionary
BAREFACED, adjective. Undisguisedly offensive and bold; crude; coarse; brazen
BAREFACED, adjective. Open, undisguised
BAREFACED, adjective. Unbearded (not having a beard or other facial hair)
BAREFACED LIE, noun. A falsehood told with utter confidence and without trying to conceal the fact that it is false, especially a planned or deliberate falsehood.
BAREFACED LIES, noun. Plural of barefaced lie
Dictionary definition
BAREFACED, adjective. With no effort to conceal; "a barefaced lie".
BAREFACED, 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.
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.