Barefaced meaning

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Unconcealed; open.
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Unrestrainedly bold; brazen.
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Shameless; brazen; audacious; impudent.

A barefaced lie.

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Undisguisedly offensive and bold; crude; coarse; brazen.
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Unbearded (not having a beard or other facial hair)
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With the face uncovered, unmasked, or beardless.
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Origin of barefaced

  • Perhaps an alteration of barefast (compare shamefast); or from bare +‎ faced

    From Wiktionary

Barefaced Sentence Examples

  • To achieve a subtle eye look, without looking barefaced, reach for the lighter shades.

  • These, of course, are barefaced forgeries, although of very ancient date; so are those which profess to be from the hand of *Ali, one of which is preserved in the same library.

  • Nor the individual who has endeavored to create alarm about " The chartist desecration of the Sabbath " by telling a barefaced lie.

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