Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for brazen-faced
Adjective
  • In hindsight that decision may not have been the wisest.
    Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 5 July 2025
  • Demonstrating a talent for working in fluent french peppered with a british accent, the actor delivers one of his most indelible acting turns as the sly, wry, and wise business mogul-turned- butler who finds new purpose in life working on the other side of the fence.
    Pete Hammond, Deadline, 3 July 2025
Adjective
  • Gemma reluctantly agrees to rebuild her impudent robot in a new body, and the sequel ends with an explosive showdown between Amelia and M3GAN, who nearly dies in a noble attempt to save Gemma and her niece, Cady (Violet McGraw).
    Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 29 June 2025
  • One chord appears to speak to the other, sounding almost impudent in their simplicity, equal parts ecstatic and heartbreakingly melancholic.
    Sam Davies, Rolling Stone, 10 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • First, there are highly vocal AI luminaires making individualized brazen predictions.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
  • The brazen corruption that pervaded St. Paul’s police force in 1935 didn’t spring up overnight.
    Nick Woltman, Twin Cities, 28 June 2025
Adjective
  • One’s insolent, calling him lame and old, and the other affectedly infantile, but both are exhausting in their own way.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 16 Apr. 2025
  • The government, in an insolent filing on Sunday evening, rewrote that instruction.
    Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • One bold young woman lay on the ground and put her feet up, wide apart.
    Zadie Smith, New Yorker, 30 June 2025
  • Her makeup included bold brows, lined eyes and a rosy lip.
    Julia Teti, Footwear News, 30 June 2025
Adjective
  • Designer Elizabeth Ghia’s inspiring spaces bring icons of design history into the 21st century for spaces that feel fresh yet classic.
    Dan Howarth, Architectural Digest, 7 July 2025
  • Everything then was fresh, local, and far more creative than people of today can even imagine.
    James Dodson July 7, Literary Hub, 7 July 2025
Adjective
  • Around the same time, a new and more audacious idea emerged: to outlaw war altogether.
    Oona A. Hathaway, Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2025
  • The Wall of Sound was their most audacious attempt: a 60-foot-wide, 75-ton scaffold of nearly 600 speakers designed to deliver pristine, distortion-free sound to both the band and audience.
    Noah Eckstein, HollywoodReporter, 23 June 2025
Adjective
  • But there’s a whole world of eggplant recipes beyond that saucy Italian American headliner.
    Joe Sevier, Bon Appetit Magazine, 8 June 2025
  • This week: a gutsy stand-up special from Sarah Silverman, a new installment of Fear Street, and some saucy reality TV.
    K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 16 May 2025
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“Brazen-faced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brazen-faced. Accessed 10 Jul. 2025.

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