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displaying or marked by rude boldness
the child proceeded to tell a bold-faced lie despite the evidence right in front of us
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Recent Examples of bold-faced
Parsons follows a string of bold-faced names who have played the storyteller, including Hal Holbrook, Henry Fonda and Paul Newman.
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Anna Tingley, Variety, 20 Sep. 2024
Each episode features Jumbo interviewing a bold-faced name about three experiences that have had a significant impact on their lives.
—Marc Malkin, Variety, 12 Sep. 2024
The nominations for this year's CMA Awards, which were released by the Country Music Association Monday, are a familiar run-down of the genre's biggest bold-faced names, including Morgan Wallen, Chris Stapleton and Lainey Wilson.
—Adam Tamburin, Axios, 9 Sep. 2024
And the bold-faced lie was caught on camera by a documentary crew that had been camped out in her house, filming Haddix’s battle against PETA.
—Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 2 Sep. 2024
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Anna Tingley, Variety, 20 Sep. 2024
Each episode features Jumbo interviewing a bold-faced name about three experiences that have had a significant impact on their lives.
—Marc Malkin, Variety, 12 Sep. 2024
The nominations for this year's CMA Awards, which were released by the Country Music Association Monday, are a familiar run-down of the genre's biggest bold-faced names, including Morgan Wallen, Chris Stapleton and Lainey Wilson.
—Adam Tamburin, Axios, 9 Sep. 2024
And the bold-faced lie was caught on camera by a documentary crew that had been camped out in her house, filming Haddix’s battle against PETA.
—Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 2 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bold-faced
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The suited ensemble featured a bold purple hue with a double-breasted blazer and gold buttons.Julia Teti, WWD, 20 Nov. 2024
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AllModern Laurene Blackout Curtain Panel $45 $40 Wayfair There’s something timeless about a bold windowpane pattern.Will Porter, Architectural Digest, 19 Nov. 2024
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At the beginning of the first film, the Emperor is the kindly, wise, old Marcus Aurelius (Richard Harris).Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 19 Nov. 2024
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Most important, sound wise, was the Vox AC15 amplifier.Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Nov. 2024
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As the stealing has become more brazen, the topic has grabbed a higher profile.Evan Clark, WWD, 22 Nov. 2024
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Google rival DuckDuckGo, whose executives testified during last year’s trial, said that the Justice Department is doing what needs to be done to rein in a brazen monopolist.Michael Liedtke, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2024
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More specifically, the impudent Skull Kid steals the Ocarina of Time and turns Link into a Deku Scrub, those antagonistic tree cannons first introduced in Ocarina.Ashley Bardhan, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2024
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In short, Moscow sees Montenegro as both strategically valuable and an impudent upstart that has thumbed its nose at the Russian bear while genuflecting before NATO and Washington.Edward P. Joseph, Foreign Affairs, 22 Dec. 2016
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According to the Los Angeles County medical examiner, the elder Kobayashi died from blunt force traumatic injuries.Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2024
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His cause of death was multiple blunt force traumatic injuries, according to the medical examiner report reviewed by PEOPLE.Raven Brunner, People.com, 26 Nov. 2024
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The bio is a cheeky reproduction of Streep's, and another play on Death Becomes Her's themes of female jealousy, rivalry, and replacement.Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 22 Nov. 2024
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The cover art for Missionary is a cheeky, black condom wrapper.Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 21 Nov. 2024
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On Friday, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois and Ohio are forecasted to see fresh snow, too.Gabe Hauari, USA TODAY, 28 Nov. 2024
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Husk is the signature restaurant, where fresh fish and marinated meats are cooked over a fire fueled by coconut husks.Robb Report Studio, Robb Report, 27 Nov. 2024
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Her subversive and dominating personality, and sometimes insolent rhetoric in her active X presence set her apart from the likes of other female AI chatbots, such as Siri whose aim is to assist and serve.Fatemeh Fannizadeh, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024
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Bullock’s John Hotham is forced to manage an uprising of rogue military personal and armed insurgents on a semi-fictional January 6, 2025 that makes the real-life January 6, 2021 seem like insolent child’s play.Dominic Patten, Deadline, 14 June 2024
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“Bold-faced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bold-faced. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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