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Wordnet 3.0

VERB (1)

1. face with defiance or impudence;
- Example: "brazen it out"


ADJECTIVE (2)

1. 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]

2. made of or resembling brass (as in color or hardness); 



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Brazen \Bra"zen\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Brazened; p. pr. & vb.
   n. Brazening.]
   To carry through impudently or shamelessly; as, to brazen the
   matter through.
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         Sabina brazened it out before Mrs. Wygram, but inwardly
         she was resolved to be a good deal more circumspect.
                                                  --W. Black.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Brazen \Bra"zen\, a.[OE. brasen, AS. br[ae]sen. See Brass.]
   1. Pertaining to, made of, or resembling, brass.
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   2. Sounding harsh and loud, like resounding brass.
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   3. Impudent; immodest; shameless; having a front like brass;
      as, a brazen countenance.
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   Brazen age.
      (a) (Myth.) The age of war and lawlessness which succeeded
          the silver age.
      (b) (Arch[ae]ol.) See under Bronze.

   Brazen sea (Jewish Antiq.), a large laver of brass, placed
      in Solomon's temple for the use of the priests.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

brazen
    adj 1: 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]
    2: made of or resembling brass (as in color or hardness)
    v 1: face with defiance or impudence; "brazen it out"


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

231 Moby Thesaurus words for "brazen":
   Titian, adust, affront, arrant, arrogant, auburn, audacious,
   aureate, aweless, barefaced, bay, bay-colored, bayard, beard,
   bell the cat, bite the bullet, blaring, blatant, blatting,
   blustering, boisterous, bold, bold as brass, boldfaced, brash,
   brass, brassy, brave, brawling, brazen out, brazenfaced, bronze,
   bronze-colored, bronzed, bronzy, brownish-red, bumptious, callous,
   calloused, candid, case-hardened, castaneous, challenging, cheeky,
   chestnut, chestnut-brown, chintzy, choked, clamant, clamorous,
   clamoursome, clanging, clangorous, clattery, coarse, cocky,
   colorful, confront, conscienceless, contemptuous, contumelious,
   copper, copper-colored, coppery, cracked, croaking, croaky, crude,
   cupreous, cuprous, daring, defiant, defying, derisive, disdainful,
   disregardful, dry, exhibitionistic, extravagant, face,
   face the music, face up, face up to, ferrous, ferruginous,
   flagrant, flaring, flashy, flaunting, forward, foxy, fresh, front,
   garish, gaudy, gilt, glaring, gold, gold-filled, gold-plated,
   golden, gorgeous, greatly daring, gruff, guttural, hard, hardened,
   hardhearted, harsh, harsh-sounding, heartless, henna, hoarse,
   hubristic, husky, immodest, impertinent, improvident, imprudent,
   impudent, incautious, indiscreet, indurated, injudicious, insolent,
   inured, iron, ironlike, lead, leaden, liver-brown, liver-colored,
   livid-brown, lost to shame, loud, lurid, mafficking, mahogany,
   meet, meet boldly, meet head-on, mercurial, mercurous,
   meretricious, metallic, nickel, nickelic, nickeline, noiseful,
   noisy, notorious, obdurate, obstreperous, obtrusive, open,
   outspoken, overbold, overcareless, overconfident, oversure,
   overweening, pert, pewter, pewtery, procacious, quicksilver,
   rackety, ragged, rash, raucid, raucous, reddish-brown,
   regardless of consequences, rip-roaring, roan, rough, roupy, rowdy,
   rubiginous, rude, rufous, run the gauntlet, russet, russety, rust,
   rust-colored, rusty, sassy, saucy, screaming, seared, sensational,
   set at defiance, shameless, silver, silver-plated, silvery,
   speak out, speak up, spectacular, squawking, squawky, stand up to,
   steel, steely, stertorous, strangled, strepitant, strepitous,
   sunburned, swaggering, tawdry, temerarious, terra-cotta, thick,
   throaty, tin, tinny, tinsel, tumultuous, turbulent, unabashed,
   unashamed, unblushing, unchary, unembarrassed, unmodest, unwary,
   uproarious, vociferous, vulgar