: barefaced
a bald-faced lie

Examples of bald-faced in a Sentence

I took the remark as a bald-faced accusation that I had cheated
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Messages left by other players appear in your world, offering hints, encouragement, jokes, or bald-faced lies. Gabriel Winslow-Yost, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024 And yet a man who would be president — and the man who would be his vice president, JD Vance — continue to repeat such bald-faced lies. The Editorial Board, Orange County Register, 18 Sep. 2024 The former president didn’t make such a bald-faced statement in a vacuum. Orion Rummler, Them, 13 Sep. 2024 The most egregious stance for the GOP to have taken is its doubling down on this bald-faced lying, smirking, defiant criminal to be its standard bearer. Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 30 July 2024 Prosecutors and Rao, their star witness, say Ozy shredded the line between hopeful hype and bald-faced deceit. Paolo Confino, Fortune, 13 June 2024 Declining trust in the traditional institutions that once served as gatekeepers to the public sphere has vastly lowered the reputational costs of bald-faced lying. Moisés Naím, Foreign Affairs, 22 Feb. 2022 Anybody who is paying attention can see this is a bald-faced attack by labor on school choice. Stefan Bean, Orange County Register, 12 Feb. 2024 The brazenness of the attack, the crude attempt to intervene in a U.S. presidential election, and the equally bald-faced denial in the face of mounting evidence of Russian government complicity have prompted a host of questions that really amount to just one: How? Eugene B. Rumer, Foreign Affairs, 2 Aug. 2016

Word History

First Known Use

1761, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of bald-faced was in 1761

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“Bald-faced.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bald-faced. Accessed 25 Dec. 2024.

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