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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
brazen
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a brazen lie
▪ At first they were careful to keep their illegal practices secret, but as time went by, they grew more brazen.
▪ His wife could no longer tolerate his brazen love affairs.
▪ Trade in illegal tapes and computer software is brazen in some parts of the world.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At first I was scared, but as I went on, I became more brazen.
▪ Atop a government building, it is an act of brazen humiliation.
▪ He met Agnes, the brazen lady-in-waiting, whom he had met on his last visit to Kinghorn.
▪ It was a perfect example of sheer brazen cheek.
▪ Maybe behind the gush there was something she wanted to say but wasn't brazen enough to bring out too openly.
▪ The film explores alternative sexuality with coy eroticism and a brazen wit, but without resorting to degrading stereotypes.
▪ The shrill blast of their brazen trumpets echoed triumphantly through the heart of the land.
▪ We could go in and pass ourselves off as invited guests by being brazen.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Brazen

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.

Sabina brazened it out before Mrs. Wygram, but inwardly she was resolved to be a good deal more circumspect.
--W. Black.

Brazen

Brazen \Bra"zen\, a.[OE. brasen, AS. br[ae]sen. See Brass.]

  1. Pertaining to, made of, or resembling, brass.

  2. Sounding harsh and loud, like resounding brass.

  3. Impudent; immodest; shameless; having a front like brass; as, a brazen countenance. Brazen age.

    1. (Myth.) The age of war and lawlessness which succeeded the silver age.

    2. (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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
brazen

Old English bræsen "of brass," from bræs "brass" (see brass) + -en (2). The figurative sense of "hardened in effrontery" is 1570s (in brazen-face), perhaps suggesting a face unable to show shame (see brass). To brazen it out "face impudently" is from 1550s.

Wiktionary
brazen
  1. (context archaic English) Pertaining to, made of, or resembling brass (in color or strength). v

  2. (context transitive English) To carry through in a brazen manner. Generally used with ''out'' or ''through''.

WordNet
brazen
  1. adj. 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, barefaced, bodacious, bold-faced, brassy, brazen-faced, insolent]

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

brazen

v. face with defiance or impudence; "brazen it out"

Wikipedia
Brazen

Brazen may refer to:

  • Made of brass
  • HMS Brazen, various ships of the British Royal Navy
  • Brazen class destroyer, consisting of four Royal Navy destroyers
  • Brazen (TV series), a British television show
  • " Brazen (Weep)", a song by Skunk Anansie
  • Captain Brazen, one of two main characters in the 1706 play The Recruiting Officer
Brazen (Weep)

"Brazen (Weep)" is the fourth and final single from Skunk Anansie's second album, Stoosh. It was released in June 1997 and reached #11 in the UK Singles Chart. That made the song to the band's most successful song in their home country, even more successful than their commercially biggest hit Hedonism (Just Because You Feel Good), which reached #13. Three versions of the single were released. CD2 and CD3 were remix CDs.

Brazen (TV series)

BRAZEN is a British television show that was filmed on location around the entire United Kingdom. Aired on Men and Motors cable/satellite channel in the United Kingdom, operated by ITV Digital. The programme refers to itself as 'Brazen Central', but can be found in the listings as 'BRAZEN'.1

A combination of pranks, reality TV interviews, 2D animations and stop-motion animations, apparent home video clips and User-generated content and sketches. Often cited as the follow-up to the notorious UK Uncovered, the series disappointed many fans of the earlier series due its over-reliance on graphics and the fact that its content was much tamer and seemingly "cleaned up".

Usage examples of "brazen".

She had been an untamed mestiza of the so-called shopkeeper aristocracy: seductive, rapacious, brazen, with a hunger in her womb that could have satisfied an entire barracks.

Sometimes, however, the full gorgeousness of Byzantine art shines through this music, and the gold-dusty modes, the metallic flatness of the pentatonic scale, the mystic twilit chants and brazen trumpet-calls make us see the mosaics of Ravenna, the black and gold ikons of Russian churches, the aureoled saints upon bricked walls, the minarets of the Kremlin.

Let us not turn then against it and deny its existence with too many brazen instruments, but remember these are but a means, and that the vast lens of the Californian refractor is but glass--it is the infinite speck upon which the ray of light will fall that is the one great fact of the universe.

Apart from a brazen sky and silphium scrub, their constant companion was the sea, a huge expanse of polished aquamarine, fluffed with white where rocks lurked, breaking in gentle wavelets upon beach after beach after beach.

Before its stone feet, brazen tripods sent wavering up the pale green and scented smoke of burnt cinnamon, mingled with white spikenard from far Dolmentus.

On the streets, in the plazas, on the open-decked ferries, he is constantly sighting Maureen: any tall lively blonde, any sunstruck girl with a touch of the brazen.

Angry over not only his conceit, but by her brazen behavior, Katrine shoved the door wide and climbed out, marching to the cab with long, unfeminine strides.

Him will I deliver, though he sail even to Hades to free Ixion below from his brazen chains, as far as strength lies in my limbs, so that Pelias may not mock at having escaped an evil doom--Pelias who left me unhonoured with sacrifice.

It must fulfill some deeply-felt needs, to survive so long in the face of its brazen unlikelihood, to say nothing of its falsehood.

He felt their bloodthirst, their brazen valor, their gaudy magnificence.

Brazen trumpet and goatskin-covered bodhran announced the approach of the Dalcassians.

He was moving his forces openly, making low-level attacks and high-level threats against the kingdoms in the most brazen manner, and because they liked Klittichom and considered him a good-fellow-well-met who said all the right things, and they had a personality problem with Boolean, who always spoke his mind, it was the latter who was getting the blame and taking the heat!

Olivia listened to the sound of the ivory trumpet and decided she preferred the brazen voice of the lituus and buccina to the muffled and delicate fanfare that heralded the arrival of Theodora.

Suddenly his corroded bunsen burner seemed to have lost its cachet, but he could think of no other course than to brazen the matter out and play for time.

Sometimes, however, the full gorgeousness of Byzantine art shines through this music, and the gold-dusty modes, the metallic flatness of the pentatonic scale, the mystic twilit chants and brazen trumpet-calls make us see the mosaics of Ravenna, the black and gold ikons of Russian churches, the aureoled saints upon bricked walls, the minarets of the Kremlin.