Word of the Day 10.27.08
brazen
bra·zen (br
z
n)
adj.
1. Marked by flagrant and insolent audacity. See Synonyms at shameless.
2. Having a loud, usually harsh, resonant sound: “sudden brazen clashes of the soldiers’ band” James Joyce.
3. Made of brass.
4. Resembling brass, as in color or strength.
tr.v. bra·zened, bra·zen·ing, bra·zens
To face or undergo with bold self-assurance: brazened out the crisis.
[Middle English brasen, made of brass, from Old English bræsen, from bræs, brass.]
brazen·ly adv.
brazen·ness n.
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| Verb | 1. | brazen – face with defiance or impudence; “brazen it out” |
| Adj. | 1. | brazen – 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
unashamed – used of persons or their behavior; feeling no shame
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| 2. | brazen – made of or resembling brass (as in color or hardness) |