Barefaced \Bare"faced`\ (b[^a]r"f[=a]st`), a.
1. With the face uncovered; not masked. "You will play
barefaced." --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
2. Without concealment; undisguised. Hence: Shameless;
audacious; as, a barefaced lie. "Barefaced treason." --J.
Baillie.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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]
WordNet (r) 2.0
52 Moby Thesaurus words for "barefaced":
arrant, audacious, aweless, bare-ankled, bare-armed, bare-backed,
bare-breasted, bare-chested, bare-handed, bare-headed, bare-legged,
bare-necked, blatant, blunt, bold, bold as brass, boldfaced,
brassy, brazen, brazenfaced, candid, cheeky, downright, forward,
frank, immodest, impertinent, impudent, indecent, indecorous,
insolent, lost to shame, manifest, open, out-and-out, outright,
overbold, pert, plain, saucy, shameless, sheer, swaggering,
topless, unabashed, unalloyed, unblushing, unconcealed, undiluted,
undisguised, unmitigated, unseemly
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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