bald-faced

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> What a bold faced lie!I've always heard this as bald-faced lie.

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(of animals) having white markings on the face

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adjective

(of animals) having white markings on the face

adjective

unrestrained by convention or propriety; "an audacious trick to pull"; "a barefaced hypocrite"; "the most bodacious display of tourism this side of Anaheim"- Los Angeles Times; "bald-faced lies"; "brazen arrogance"; "the modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress"- Bertrand Russell

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Core meanings and parts of speech for bald-faced.

adjective

(of animals) having white markings on the face

adjective

Example sentences

> What a bold faced lie!I've always heard this as bald-faced lie.

They tell bald-faced lies, and they expect people won't check up on them.

That's not a "bald-faced lie."Saying Schmidt lied to Congress is the bald-faced lie.

If we know anything for certain from the last ~7 months, it's that "trust us, we're not doing anything wrong" is a bald-faced lie.

You can call that misleading or slippery, but it's by definition not a bald-faced lie.

He told them a bald-faced lie about what had occurred, then called me into his office and yelled at me for daring to call my parents.

It's bald-faced confiscation of individuals' savings in order to bail out mismanaged banks.

It's bald-faced bare-knuckles competitive, focuses 95% on FUD and 5% on features, and seems to know this and get by by saying "Don't worry, I'm being ironic about it" but it isn't.

All too often, I'd seen hucksterish, self-promoting coworkers tell bald-faced lies about their work, their accomplishments, their positions, etc., and get massively rewarded for doing so.

With scummy, law-breaking, deceitful, cynical, practices that hold the most cherished rights and freedoms of people everywhere in contempt, and bald-faced lying to congress, no less, on the part of top management, what's to feel good about?

Lying through one's teeth is a valid strategy to create a "message"?What next, Woz being a spokesperson for Google?If he thinks that the issue of Chinese workers and Apple is important, he's sinking his own ship by lending credence to a bald-faced liar.