Definition of "barefaced" [bare•faced]

• Having no covering over the face. (adjective)
• Having no beard. (adjective)
• Without disguise; unconcealed. (adjective)
• Undisguisedly bold; brazen. See Synonyms at shameless. (adjective)

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• ""And such I call barefaced and downright wantonness and waste," interrupted his sturdy disputant."
• "Not surprisingly, folks using the word barefaced were open to shifting the adjective into the metaphoric realm: barefaced soon came to describe something"
• "Alex Salmond's critique of the Coalition Government has been called 'barefaced cheek' Simon Johnson, Scottish Political Editor"