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not subject to misinterpretation or more than one interpretation
a barefaced challenge for a fight
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Recent Examples of barefaced
Lacy’s new music maintains his sly sense of humor, but with a barefaced melancholy that pushes it to new emotional depths.
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Jeff Ihaza,
Rolling Stone,
14 Aug. 2025
In one clip from PBS NewsHour, a barefaced Pence could be seen elbow-bumping and chatting with multiple people inside the clinic.
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Allyson Chiu,
Anchorage Daily News,
29 Apr. 2020
That act of barefaced deception drew Argentina level.
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CNN,
4 Apr. 2018
However, the Heitkamps were not taking this barefaced truth sitting down.
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Charles P. Pierce,
Esquire,
16 Mar. 2018
The production also favors a barefaced and bare-chested homoeroticism.
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Alexis Soloski,
New York Times,
29 Sep. 2017
How does a man whose first true introduction into the American consciousness was a barefaced lie about the crowd size at the president’s inauguration become the surprise guest at this year’s Emmy Awards, only to make a joke about said lie?
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Stephen A. Crockett Jr.,
The Root,
18 Sep. 2017
For followers fluent in Portuguese that means confessional videos where a barefaced Trindade provides comic reviews of her favorite products, outlines her favorite outfits, and takes trips to the tattoo parlor to add more body ink.
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Janelle Okwodu,
Vogue,
30 Aug. 2017
Teigen said, displaying her barefaced skin with blemishes on her nose, chin and forehead.
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Kaitlyn Frey,
PEOPLE.com,
1 Aug. 2017
Jeff Ihaza,
Rolling Stone,
14 Aug. 2025
In one clip from PBS NewsHour, a barefaced Pence could be seen elbow-bumping and chatting with multiple people inside the clinic.
—
Allyson Chiu,
Anchorage Daily News,
29 Apr. 2020
That act of barefaced deception drew Argentina level.
—
CNN,
4 Apr. 2018
However, the Heitkamps were not taking this barefaced truth sitting down.
—
Charles P. Pierce,
Esquire,
16 Mar. 2018
The production also favors a barefaced and bare-chested homoeroticism.
—
Alexis Soloski,
New York Times,
29 Sep. 2017
How does a man whose first true introduction into the American consciousness was a barefaced lie about the crowd size at the president’s inauguration become the surprise guest at this year’s Emmy Awards, only to make a joke about said lie?
—
Stephen A. Crockett Jr.,
The Root,
18 Sep. 2017
For followers fluent in Portuguese that means confessional videos where a barefaced Trindade provides comic reviews of her favorite products, outlines her favorite outfits, and takes trips to the tattoo parlor to add more body ink.
—
Janelle Okwodu,
Vogue,
30 Aug. 2017
Teigen said, displaying her barefaced skin with blemishes on her nose, chin and forehead.
—
Kaitlyn Frey,
PEOPLE.com,
1 Aug. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for barefaced
Adjective
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But what feels most haunting about the arc of then to now, about Smith’s unfathomable issues and woes — yet obvious heart and particularly evident quest to find himself in recent years — is that his words then were spoken with a sense of arrival and past tense.
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Look in the most obvious places first.
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Less than two years after an infant girl died of apparent starvation in Mesquite, the child's parents pleaded guilty to a lesser crime and received lengthy prison sentences.
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The Sox announced after the game that Sean Newcomb will be the opener Saturday in an apparent bullpen game.
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The companies that survive this wave will stand for something unmistakable.
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The clinical system gave my family no pathway for thinking about his risk before his decline became unmistakable.
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Eiglarsh added that while the suffering of the families was evident throughout the trial, the defense successfully argued that the crash was a tragic accident.
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As part of this shift, Cuban officers are opting to train soldiers in guerrilla tactics rather than conventional warfare — a strategic departure corroborated by Cancian that is also evident in the footage.
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When asked what works to prevent the chaotic scenes that sometimes dominate news coverage, the youths had a straightforward answer.
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While embryo screening carries relatively less ethical baggage than embryo editing, even screening alone is not always ethically straightforward.
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Emergency crews continue to assess the situation in different parts of the country, while authorities are expected to provide a clearer picture in the coming hours regarding material damage, injuries and possible fatalities.
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There’s clear evidence that some of the links between larger climate patterns in the atmosphere are being altered by climate change, Trenberth said.
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