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Bold-faced   Listen
adjective
Bold-faced  adj.  
1.
Somewhat impudent; lacking modesty; as, a bold-faced woman. "I have seen enough to confute all the bold-faced atheists of this age."
2.
(Print.) Having a conspicuous or heavy face; also called boldface. Note: This line is bold-faced nonpareil.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Bold-faced" Quotes from Famous Books



... happened, there was no need of sending for Master Noll. While King James was speaking, a rugged, bold-faced, sturdy little urchin thrust himself through the throng of courtiers and attendants, and greeted the prince with a broad stare. His doublet and hose (which had been put on new and clean in honor of the king's visit) ...
— True Stories from History and Biography • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... people,—the highest position in the world short of royalty. And the reader will remember that Lady Glencora intended to be a Duchess of Omnium herself,—unless some very unexpected event should intrude itself. She intended also that her little boy, her fair-haired, curly-pated, bold-faced little boy, should be Earl of Silverbridge when the sand of the old man should have run itself out. Heavens, what a blow would it be, should some little wizen-cheeked half-monkey baby, with black brows, and yellow ...
— Phineas Finn - The Irish Member • Anthony Trollope

... Yes, I met with Shame; but of all the men that I met with in my pilgrimage, he, I think, bears the wrong name. The others would be said nay, after a little argumentation, and somewhat else; but this bold-faced ...
— The Pilgrim's Progress - From this world to that which is to come. • John Bunyan

... Western ways had begun to shave, thus setting at defiance the Oriental custom which everywhere prevailed in Russia. Under Peter's father one of the Raskol leaders, the protopope Avvakum, denounced "these bold-faced" men—bold-faced meaning shaven. The prohibition of Leviticus (xxix. 27; xxi. 5) was first adduced, in conformity with the love for alleging religious scruples. Recourse was next had to the ancient missals and the decrees of the Stoglaf, a sort of ecclesiastical ...
— Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science, April 1875, Vol. XV., No. 88 • Various

... been paid off," said Bles, but Miss Taylor was too disgusted to answer. Further on they overtook a tall young yellow boy walking awkwardly beside a handsome, bold-faced girl. Two white men came riding by. One leered at the girl, and she laughed back, while the yellow boy strode sullenly ahead. As the two white riders approached the buggy one ...
— The Quest of the Silver Fleece - A Novel • W. E. B. Du Bois



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