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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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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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. Robert G. Ingersoll

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. Phillip E. Johnson

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. Rush Limbaugh

I know of no sentence that can induce such immediate and brazen lying as the one that begins, 'Have you read - .' Wilson Mizner

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. Dmitry Medvedev

In form of Stentor of the brazen voice, Whose shout was as the shout of fifty men. Homer

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