: 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
Recent Examples on the Web 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 Nests of bald-faced hornets, a species commonly found in Georgia, typically house 500 to 600 individuals. Drew Kann, ajc, 28 Aug. 2023 Microsoft’s Bing debut is now infamously associated with bald-faced lies, gaslighting, and emotional manipulation. Wes Davis, The Verge, 27 May 2023

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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 26 Jul. 2024.

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