barefaced Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite with no effort to conceal
    bald.
    • a barefaced lie
  2. adjective satellite unrestrained by convention or propriety
    brassy; insolent; bodacious; audacious; brazen; bald-faced; brazen-faced.
    • 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

WordNet

Bare"faced` adjective
Definitions
  1. With the face uncovered; not masked. "You will play barefaced." Shak.
  2. Without concealment; undisguised. Hence: Shameless; audacious. "Barefaced treason." J. Baillie.

Webster 1913