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brazen

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Adjective, Verb (transitive)
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bra=zen
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CIDE DICTIONARY

brazena. [OE. brasen, AS. bræsen. See Brass.].
  •  Pertaining to, made of, or resembling, brass.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Sounding harsh and loud, like resounding brass.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Impudent; immodest; shameless; having a front like brass; as, a brazen countenance.  [1913 Webster]
Brazen age. (a) (Myth.) The age of war and lawlessness which succeeded the silver age. (b) (Archæol.) See under Bronze. -- Brazen sea (Jewish Antiq.), a large laver of brass, placed in Solomon's temple for the use of the priests.
brazenv. t. 
     To carry through impudently or shamelessly; as, to brazen the matter through.  [1913 Webster]
    "Sabina brazened it out before Mrs. Wygram, but inwardly she was resolved to be a good deal more circumspect."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

brazen, adj. & v.
--adj.
1 (also brazen-faced) flagrant and shameless; insolent.
2 made of brass.
3 of or like brass, esp. in colour or sound.
--v.tr. (foll. by out) face or undergo defiantly.

Idiom
brazen it out be defiantly unrepentant under censure.
Derivative
brazenly adv. brazenness n.
Etymology
OE br{aelig}sen f. br{aelig}s brass

THESAURUS

brazen

Titian, adust, affront, arrant, arrogant, auburn, audacious, aureate, aweless, barefaced, bay, bay-colored, bayard, beard, bell the cat, bite the bullet, blaring, blatant, blatting, blustering, boisterous, bold, bold as brass, boldfaced, brash, brass, brassy, brave, brawling, brazen out, brazenfaced, bronze, bronze-colored, bronzed, bronzy, brownish-red, bumptious, callous, calloused, candid, case-hardened, castaneous, challenging, cheeky, chestnut, chestnut-brown, chintzy, choked, clamant, clamorous, clamoursome, clanging, clangorous, clattery, coarse, cocky, colorful, confront, conscienceless, contemptuous, contumelious, copper, copper-colored, coppery, cracked, croaking, croaky, crude, cupreous, cuprous, daring, defiant, defying, derisive, disdainful, disregardful, dry, exhibitionistic, extravagant, face, face the music, face up, face up to, ferrous, ferruginous, flagrant, flaring, flashy, flaunting, forward, foxy, fresh, front, garish, gaudy, gilt, glaring, gold, gold-filled, gold-plated, golden, gorgeous, greatly daring, gruff, guttural, hard, hardened, hardhearted, harsh, harsh-sounding, heartless, henna, hoarse, hubristic, husky, immodest, impertinent, improvident, imprudent, impudent, incautious, indiscreet, indurated, injudicious, insolent, inured, iron, ironlike, lead, leaden, liver-brown, liver-colored, livid-brown, lost to shame, loud, lurid, mafficking, mahogany, meet, meet boldly, meet head-on, mercurial, mercurous, meretricious, metallic, nickel, nickelic, nickeline, noiseful, noisy, notorious, obdurate, obstreperous, obtrusive, open, outspoken, overbold, overcareless, overconfident, oversure, overweening, pert, pewter, pewtery, procacious, quicksilver, rackety, ragged, rash, raucid, raucous, reddish-brown, regardless of consequences, rip-roaring, roan, rough, roupy, rowdy, rubiginous, rude, rufous, run the gauntlet, russet, russety, rust, rust-colored, rusty, sassy, saucy, screaming, seared, sensational, set at defiance, shameless, silver, silver-plated, silvery, speak out, speak up, spectacular, squawking, squawky, stand up to, steel, steely, stertorous, strangled, strepitant, strepitous, sunburned, swaggering, tawdry, temerarious, terra-cotta, thick, throaty, tin, tinny, tinsel, tumultuous, turbulent, unabashed, unashamed, unblushing, unchary, unembarrassed, unmodest, unwary, uproarious, vociferous, vulgar

ROGET THESAURUS

brazen

Insolence

N insolence, haughtiness, arrogance, airs, overbearance, domineering, tyranny, impertinence, sauciness, flippancy, dicacity, petulance, procacity, bluster, swagger, swaggering, bounce, terrorism, assumption, presumption, beggar on horseback, usurpation, impudence, assurance, audacity, hardihood, front, face, brass, shamelessness, effrontery, hardened front, face of brass, assumption of infallibility, saucebox, insolent, haughty, arrogant, imperious, magisterial, dictatorial, arbitrary, high-handed, high and mighty, contumelious, supercilious, overbearing, intolerant, domineering, overweening, high-flown, flippant, pert, fresh, cavalier, saucy, forward, impertinent, malapert, precocious, assuming, would-be, bumptious, bluff, brazen, shameless, aweless, unblushlng, unabashed, brazen, boldfaced-, barefaced-, brazen-faced, dead to shame, lost to shame, impudent, audacious, presumptuous, free and easy, devil-may-care, rollicking, jaunty, janty, roistering, blustering, hectoring, swaggering, vaporing, thrasonic, fire eating, full of sound and fury, with a high hand, ex cathedra, one's bark being worse than his bite, beggars mounted run their horse to death, quid times? Caesarem vehis, wagahai wa (expressing superiority), insolence, haughtiness, arrogance, airs, overbearance, domineering, tyranny, impertinence, sauciness, flippancy, dicacity, petulance, procacity, bluster, swagger, swaggering, bounce, terrorism, assumption, presumption, beggar on horseback, usurpation, impudence, assurance, audacity, hardihood, front, face, brass, shamelessness, effrontery, hardened front, face of brass, assumption of infallibility, saucebox, insolent, haughty, arrogant, imperious, magisterial, dictatorial, arbitrary, high-handed, high and mighty, contumelious, supercilious, overbearing, intolerant, domineering, overweening, high-flown, flippant, pert, fresh, cavalier, saucy, forward, impertinent, malapert, precocious, assuming, would-be, bumptious, bluff, brazen, shameless, aweless, unblushlng, unabashed, brazen, boldfaced-, barefaced-, brazen-faced, dead to shame, lost to shame, impudent, audacious, presumptuous, free and easy, devil-may-care, rollicking, jaunty, janty, roistering, blustering, hectoring, swaggering, vaporing, thrasonic, fire eating, full of sound and fury, with a high hand, ex cathedra, one's bark being worse than his bite, beggars mounted run their horse to death, quid times? Caesarem vehis, wagahai wa (expressing superiority).


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