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synonyms for brazen
- audacious
- blatant
- bold
- impudent
- shameless
- unabashed
- flip
- forward
- barefaced
- brassy
- cheeky
- cocky
- contumelious
- defiant
- flashy
- gritty
- gutsy
- hotshot
- immodest
- impertinent
- indecent
- insolent
- loud
- meretricious
- nervy
- overbold
- pert
- saucy
- smart-alecky
- smart-ass
- spunky
- tawdry
- unblushing
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How to use brazen in a sentence
Ian Jannetta, a spokesman for Metro, called the incident “brazen” and “violent in nature.”
Arrest made in assault on elderly man aboard Metro train | Dana Hedgpeth | February 2, 2021 | Washington PostPerhaps the most dunked-on alleged rioter was Texas real estate agent Jenna Ryan, who appeared to use the brazen attack on American democracy as a branding opportunity.
The Capitol rioters kept posting incriminating things on social media. Unsurprisingly, they were mocked — and arrested. | Travis Andrews | January 19, 2021 | Washington PostYou are therefore free not to participate — so long as you keep to yourself your feeling that the invitation is brazen gift-fishing.
Miss Manners: Exec’s disgusting habit needs to move off-screen | Judith Martin, Nicholas Martin, Jacobina Martin | December 2, 2020 | Washington Post
The brazen afternoon shooting is indicative of a violent year in the District.
After D.C. firefighter shot and wounded on the job, department expresses frustration at violence in city | Peter Hermann | November 24, 2020 | Washington PostHe has taken brazen steps, such as meeting with Michigan’s top legislators in a bid to have new electors chosen that would pick him.
A noisy president goes (relatively) quiet in wake of election defeat | Josh Dawsey | November 23, 2020 | Washington Postbrazen cherry-picking of the information in this story inspired a flood of “Bush Was Right All Along!”
Political Memes That Absolutely Must Die in 2015 | Asawin Suebsaeng | January 1, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd yet brazen bandits prove time and again they are willing to try to return anything.
The Insane $11 Billion Scam at Retailers’ Return Desks | M.L. Nestel | December 19, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe brazen land grab of Crimea was planned while Putin was enjoying the limelight of the Sochi Winter Olympics.
Putin Is Lying on Ukraine—and the West Can’t Stop Him | Jamie Dettmer | November 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAs the brazen crime leads to the discovery of several bodies, media coverage feeds a sense of security imperiled.
Mexico City: Francisco Goldman’s Other Lost Love | Jason Berry | September 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIt is the first time that Iranian TV has publicized this type of report in such a brazen manner.
The order of the bells is first “silver,” second “golden,” third “brazen,” and fourth “iron.”
Assimilative Memory | Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)The brazen roar of the cannon is mingled with the intermittent rattle of innumerable machine guns.
I went out to-night to take a quiet walk upon this place, and the horrid brazen discord of these trumpeters set me half mad.
Little Travels and Roadside Sketches | William Makepeace ThackerayJupiter is mentioned in Ovid's Metamorphoses immediately after the description of the golden, silver, brazen, and iron ages.
Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 (of 7) -- Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems | Geoffrey ChaucerAn allusion to the fable in sop about the earthern and brazen pots being dashed together.
Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 (of 7) -- Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems | Geoffrey Chaucer
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