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Definition of Barefaced
1. Adjective. With no effort to conceal. "A barefaced lie"
2. Adjective. Unrestrained by convention or propriety. "The modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress"
Similar to: Unashamed
Derivative terms: Audaciousness, Audacity, Brass, Brazenness, Insolence
Definition of Barefaced
1. a. With the face uncovered; not masked.
Definition of Barefaced
1. Adjective. Open, undisguised ¹
2. Adjective. Unbearded (not having a beard or other facial hair) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Barefaced
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Barefaced
Literary usage of Barefaced
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1878)
"... or at any other time, I gave my "public attestation to the spiritualistic
genuineness of what had been proved to be a most barefaced imposture. ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1829)
"THEY bore him barefaced on his bier, Yet warrior souls can feel, When Death in
a heart, that knew not fear, In his shining shirt of steel ; They heaved no ..."
3. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"Here is a paradox of another sort, in which the answer given is an obvious and
barefaced fallacy, and yei in which it requires considerable ingenuity to ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... of the heretics than from their barefaced brigandage during the war. "
What Pius V wanted was an honest, open war waged by Charles IX and the Guises ..."
5. Our Wild Indians: Thirty-three Years Personal Experience Among the Red Men by Richard Irving Dodge (1884)
"... The Gaming Table — The Trader's Grip on the Red Man's Throat — barefaced
Swindling— An Open and Shut Game — Hobson's Choice — The Traders' Prey. ..."
6. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England by Edward Hyde Clarendon (1839)
"not have barefaced declined the execution of those commands they were sworn to
observe. Several messengers were therefore sent from Oxford with those writs; ..."
7. The Life and Correspondence of Rufus King: Comprising His Letters, Private by Rufus King (1900)
"... Affairs—King to E. King—Illinois' Proposal to introduce Slavery—Hopes Ohio
will not imitate—Project barefaced and infamous—Canal—E. King to King—Judge ..."
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