: 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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Great White Year: 1981 Director: Enzo G. Castellari Runtime: 1h 28m Few Jaws rip-offs are quite as bald-faced in their theft as Great White, an Italian production directed by Enzo G. Castellari. Keith Phipps, Vulture, 21 June 2025 Bald-Faced Hornet The bald-faced hornet is a yellowjacket that builds round or football-shaped nests in shrubs, attached to buildings, or high aboveground in trees. Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 20 June 2025 When Napoleon insists on Antonin serving a dessert in the form of a pyramid — a bald-faced invocation of the war between France and England, and a provocation to the English ambassador, who is theoretically the guest of honor — Antonin duly wheels one into the dining room. Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 11 June 2025 While Sandoval is perhaps taking advantage of this in the most bald-faced way on The Traitors, he’s joined by the likes of Sam Asghari, Britney Spears’s mysterious ex-husband, and Ivar Mountbatten, a minor royal who used to work for the parent company of Cambridge Analytica. Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 20 Feb. 2025 While Sandoval is perhaps taking advantage of this in the most bald-faced way on The Traitors, he’s joined by the likes of Sam Asghari, Britney Spears’s mysterious ex-husband, and Ivar Mountbatten, a minor royal who used to work for the parent company of Cambridge Analytica. Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 20 Feb. 2025 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

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 30 Jun. 2025.

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