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BAREFACED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does barefaced mean? 

BAREFACED (adjective)
  The adjective BAREFACED has 2 senses:

1. with no effort to concealplay

2. unrestrained by convention or proprietyplay

  Familiarity information: BAREFACED used as an adjective is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BAREFACED (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

With no effort to conceal

Synonyms:

bald; barefaced

Context example:

a barefaced lie

Similar:

open; overt (open and observable; not secret or hidden)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Unrestrained by convention or propriety

Synonyms:

audacious; bald-faced; barefaced; bodacious; brassy; brazen; brazen-faced; insolent

Context example:

the modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress

Similar:

unashamed (used of persons or their behavior; feeling no shame)


 Context examples 


They attacked him in various ways—with barefaced questions, ingenious suppositions, and distant surmises; but he eluded the skill of them all, and they were at last obliged to accept the second-hand intelligence of their neighbour, Lady Lucas.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)



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