brazen

Object

• attempt: A somewhat amazing statement considering the brazen attempt to exclude the CPGB.
• effrontery: As with all the others, there is the same quietly brazen effrontery in trying to minimize or ignore unanswerable facts.
• example: In these denials we have perhaps one of the most brazen examples of the double intent referred to above.
• corruption: There is brazen corruption in the system and politicians are busy amassing public funds for private political ends.
• manner: Indeed, when I hunted him up in town on the Tuesday night, he confessed as much in the most brazen manner imaginable.
• attitude: But that is exactly what makes them so endearing; who can resist such a brazen attitude in something so tiny?

Infinitive complement

• admit: Mel Gibson was brazen enough to admit it openly, through denial.

Modifies a noun

• serpent: This is to believe on the Son of God lifted up; which is compared with looking to the brazen serpent.
• altar: But what a solemn lesson is read out to us from these horns of the brazen altar!
• attack: For years, farmers and ranchers have become increasingly worried by the brazen ALF attacks.
• brow: They'll ride astride with brazen brow, as witches do on broomsticks now.
• liar: You are a liar in all but name, Godfrey - far worse than the brazen liars which fill much of the Tory party.
• cheek: The brazen cheek of the man and his ilk never ceases to amaze me.

Modifying Another Word

• enough: Mel Gibson was brazen enough to admit it openly, through denial.
• so: There's just no need to ever be quite so brazen with cushions.
• quite: In the manner of buttons they are quite hard, quite brazen.
• now: The attempt is now brazen; it used to be surreptitious.
• increasingly: The New Ugly Face of Domination Power is increasingly brazen.
• often: The takeover is often brazen, and it is extremely unlikely that Jesus was born on December 25.