brazen

adjbrash, unashamed

Synonyms for brazen

adj brash, unashamed

Antonyms for brazen

Word Origin & History

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.

Example Sentences for brazen

A brazen urn was carried round, in which every citizen deposited a pebble.

In the midst of the barrier stood an altar, on the top of which was a brazen eagle.

She gnashed her white tusks, and dug into the sand with her brazen claws.

He was more than ever sure that Grannie was a simpleton and Csar a brazen hypocrite.

A crash of brazen music burst upon the ear and drowned the voice.

"It was a bargain of coercion, Monsieur," she answered attempting to brazen it out.

During the last melee, the brazen lips of the cannon were dumb.

He rattled his sword in its brazen scabbard, but it gave no answer back to him.

Its voice was not the trumpeting of the disreputable goddess we all know—not blatant—not brazen.

He would have judged her brazen, little knowing the warm passion of her tears.

brazen

Synonyms for brazen

Antonyms for brazen

assured

audacious

bald-faced

barefaced

bluster

brazen

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Antonyms for brazen

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assured

audacious

bald-faced

barefaced

bluster

Synonyms for brazen

assumptive