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Synonyms for bare-faced

adj frank

More words related to bare-faced

flagrant

adjective. flaunting, blatant; without shame

Word Origin & History

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

Example Sentences for bare-faced

Lucy smiled at the bare-faced fraud and hastened to abet it.

A bare-faced tenon is one in which a cheek is cut from only one side.

And the note that purported to be from Peter, he believed a bare-faced fraud.

At this bare-faced libel Bowles cleared his throat to speak.

It is a piece of bare-faced impudence to impugn the girl's honour.

The most bare-faced duelist might almost brandish his weapon.

You have made hundreds, and I don't know but thousands of dollars, by your impudence and bare-faced deceit.

The traveller's way is beset by juvenile vagrants, bare-faced and importunate as Neapolitans or Arabs.

This would be considered in almost any other country a bare-faced attempt to swindle us.

Would you really like to give up your name as the author of this bare-faced libel?

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forward

frank

more forward

openhearted

plainspoken

Synonyms for bare-faced

flagrant