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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
barefaced
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a barefaced lieBritish English, a bald-faced lie American English (= an obvious lie that is told with no sense of shame)
▪ How can you stand there and tell me such a barefaced lie?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ It is the parallel and barefaced cheek of their methods to keep hold of political office that really takes the breath away.
▪ Lucien could not endure the thought of appearing barefaced in front of a stranger, especially a person of great status.
▪ She kept her cool and dished out more than her fair share of barefaced cheek, in more senses than one.
▪ Some people were having holiday romances: they radiated an air of barefaced sin and were itching to talk about it.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Barefaced

Barefaced \Bare"faced`\ (b[^a]r"f[=a]st`), a.

  1. With the face uncovered; not masked. ``You will play barefaced.''
    --Shak.

  2. Without concealment; undisguised. Hence: Shameless; audacious; as, a barefaced lie. ``Barefaced treason.''
    --J. Baillie.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
barefaced

1580s, "with face uncovered or shaven;" see bare (adj.) + face (n.). Thus, "unconcealed" (c.1600), and, in a bad sense, "shameless" (1670s). Compare effrontery. The half-French bare-vis (adj.) conveyed the same sense in Middle English.

Wiktionary
barefaced

a. 1 Undisguisedly offensive and bold; crude; coarse; brazen 2 open, undisguised 3 unbearded (not having a beard or other facial hair)

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WordNet
barefaced

  1. adj. 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]

Usage examples of "barefaced".

While Jones and his mask were walking together about the room, to rid themselves of the teazer, he observed his lady speak to several masks, with the same freedom of acquaintance as if they had been barefaced.

It seemed to me that she was making sport of me with the most barefaced effrontery.

Sergeant, rather than ask advice -- that is, direct, barefaced advice -- of a foremast hand, or any other than a quarter-deck officer, I would go round to the whole thousand, and examine tbem one by one until we got the right haven.

Miss Ophelia was so indignant at the barefaced lie, that she caught the child and shook her.

The reason was that barefaced injustice in a court of justice shook his whole faith in man.

Neither the High Ladies nor God Milo could afford to countenance your barefaced insult and defiance of your overlord.

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He had counted on getting from her, at a minimum, a hint as to where the path either entered the thicket or left it, and all he had got was a barefaced lie with Sumner Hoff to back it up.

Normally she would have laughed back at him, since they both knew he had just told a barefaced lie.

The long, blond-brown hair and thick beard he wore certainly helped, making Sam look less like a dormant tree slug than most barefaced humans did, and much more like an intelligent being.

Again, if Father San Browne, tea and toaster to that quaintesttest of yarnspinners is Padre Don Bruno, treu and troster to the queen of Iar-Spain, was the reverend, the sodality director, that eupeptic viceflayer, a barefaced carmelite,to whose palpitating pulpit (which of us but remembers the rarevalent and hornerable Fratomistor Nawlanmore and Brawne.

At staring and saying nothing a barefaced man, unspectacled, starts scratch.