brazen
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1. brazen - Adjective
2. brazen - Verb
3. brazen - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Pertaining to, made of, or resembling, brass.
Sounding harsh and loud, like resounding brass.
Impudent; immodest; shameless; having a front like brass; as, a brazen countenance.
To carry through impudently or shamelessly; as, to brazen the matter through.
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Like an armed warrior, like a plumed knight, James G. Blaine marched down the halls of the American Congress and threw his shining lance full and fair against the brazen forehead of every traitor to his country and every maligner of his fair reputation.
In short, it is not that evolutionary naturalists have been less brazen than the scientific creationists in holding science hostage, but rather that they have been infinitely more effective in getting away with it.
When a nominee for the Supreme Court, one of only nine lifetime appointments, makes an overtly brazen racist comment about tens of millions of American citizens, we don't need lectures. What we need to do is to confront her with what she said and what it says about her.
I know of no sentence that can induce such immediate and brazen lying as the one that begins, 'Have you read - .'
Business is always looking to avoid the toughest norms. But some do it in a civilized way, while others push it using uncivilized, brazen methods.
In form of Stentor of the brazen voice, Whose shout was as the shout of fifty men.