Search Result for "barefaced": 
Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. with no effort to conceal;
- Example: "a barefaced lie"
[syn: bald, barefaced]

2. unrestrained by convention or propriety;
- Example: "an audacious trick to pull"
- Example: "a barefaced hypocrite"
- Example: "the most bodacious display of tourism this side of Anaheim"- Los Angeles Times
- Example: "bald-faced lies"
- Example: "brazen arrogance"
- Example: "the modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress"- Bertrand Russell
[syn: audacious, barefaced, bodacious, bald-faced, brassy, brazen, brazen-faced, insolent]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

barefaced adj 1: with no effort to conceal; "a barefaced lie" [syn: bald, barefaced] 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; "bald-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, barefaced, bodacious, bald-faced, brassy, brazen, brazen-faced, insolent]