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English Dictionary: barefaced by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
barefaced
adj
  1. with no effort to conceal; "a barefaced lie" [syn: bald, barefaced]
  2. unrestrained by convention or propriety; "an audacious trick to pull"; "a barefaced hypocrite"; "the most bodacious display of tourism this side of Anaheim"- Los Angeles Times; "bald-faced lies"; "brazen arrogance"; "the modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress"- Bertrand Russell
    Synonym(s): audacious, barefaced, bodacious, bald-faced, brassy, brazen, brazen-faced, insolent
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Barefaced \Bare"faced`\, a.
      1. With the face uncovered; not masked. [bd]You will play
            barefaced.[b8] --Shak.
  
      2. Without concealment; undisguised. Hence: Shameless;
            audacious. [bd]Barefaced treason.[b8] --J. Baillie.
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