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BAREFACED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does barefaced mean?
• BAREFACED (adjective)
The adjective BAREFACED has 2 senses:
1. with no effort to conceal
2. unrestrained by convention or propriety
Familiarity information: BAREFACED used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
With no effort to conceal
Synonyms:
bald; barefaced
Context example:
a barefaced lie
Similar:
open; overt (open and observable; not secret or hidden)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Unrestrained by convention or propriety
Synonyms:
audacious; bald-faced; barefaced; bodacious; brassy; brazen; brazen-faced; insolent
Context example:
the modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress
Similar:
unashamed (used of persons or their behavior; feeling no shame)
Context examples
They attacked him in various ways—with barefaced questions, ingenious suppositions, and distant surmises; but he eluded the skill of them all, and they were at last obliged to accept the second-hand intelligence of their neighbour, Lady Lucas.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
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