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Barefaced adj.

With the face uncovered; not masked. "You will play barefaced."

Without concealment; undisguised. Hence: Shameless; audacious; as, a barefaced lie. "Barefaced treason."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Barefaced" Quotes from Famous Books

... trifle,—a hundred dollars," answered his unscrupulous confederate, who was certainly cheating Martin in the most barefaced manner. ...

— Rufus and Rose - The Fortunes of Rough and Ready • Horatio Alger, Jr

... She became almost barefaced. "It is so true," she said, "that at lunch one can't really talk to anyone. And I've so wanted to talk to you. ...

— The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman • H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

... tell him what I thought of it. To me it was the most barefaced, shameless piece of imposture that I had ever witnessed. The collusion and the signal had really been ...

— The Parasite • Arthur Conan Doyle

... has wit, there is old Churchill has as much God-d-n-ye wit as ever-except that he has lost two teeth. There are half a dozen Scotchmen who vote against the Court, and are cried up by the Opposition for wit, to keep them steady. They are forced to cry up their parts, for it would be too barefaced to commend their honesty. Then Mr. Nugent has had a great deal of wit till within this week; but he is so busy and so witty, that even his own party grow tired of him. His plump wife, who talks of nothing else, says he ...

— The Letters of Horace Walpole, Volume 1 • Horace Walpole

... why, that's the most barefaced revoke,—ha, ha, ha! trump the queen of diamonds and play out the king! well, I never! ha, ...

— My Novel, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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