barefaced

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I'm tired of people doing shitty things to me and ones I love, then getting away with it with barefaced lies.

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with no effort to conceal; "a barefaced lie"

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adjective

with no effort to conceal; "a barefaced lie"

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 barefaced.

adjective

with no effort to conceal; "a barefaced lie"

adjective

Example sentences

I'm tired of people doing shitty things to me and ones I love, then getting away with it with barefaced lies.

Hey, don't down-vote this comment, down-vote the title, containing this direct and barefaced lie!

It's barefaced lying and it's a pretty good indicator IMO of low morals.

Bear in mind that the EU can fine all three companies 3 times their annual turnover for such gross and barefaced violations.

I literally never thought I'd see barefaced attempts at FUD over making things better, even when it's Microsoft.

If it were anywhere else in the world, we'd immediately be calling it out for exactly what it is: barefaced corruption amongst the incestuous VCs. But since the Valley has convinced many that it's the meritocratic mecca for formerly maligned nerds, we scratch our heads trying to preserve that image while the truth lies right in front of you.

My own personal aphorism when talking down someone who is annoyed at their compensation compared to a colleague's, is "you don't get paid what you are worth, you get paid what you can blag".If you have the barefaced cheek and personality profile to be able to convince someone to give you money for old rope, more power to you.