Barefaced

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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