(a.) Pertaining to, made of, or resembling, brass.
(a.) Sounding harsh and loud, like resounding brass.
(a.) Impudent; immodest; shameless; having a front like brass; as, a brazen countenance.
(v. t.) To carry through impudently or shamelessly; as, to brazen the matter through.
Example Sentences:
(1) The problem is no longer that it's brazen, but that it's banal.
(2) "If you don't want my gear [on TV], I've got plenty of other places to take it," Jamie Oliver told advertisers last autumn, brazenly and a tad cheekily, at a Channel 4 "upfront" preview presentation of its 2014 schedule.
(3) The early stages of grief can make a person brazen; for awhile, you have nothing left to lose.
(4) This is the stuff women are thinking about all the time, even as we brazenly strut through grocery store parking lots at eight in the morning, wearing overalls, with our hair in ponytails.
(5) A machine gun-wielding provincial governor took part in tackling a team of Taliban suicide bombers on Sunday when insurgents launched another brazen attack on a government facility in Afghanistan .
(6) He now faces an even harder task of selling his economic policies to a doubting and cash-strapped nation when his taxman in chief, the man responsible for fiscal "justice", was hiding a stack of cash from the tax authorities and brazenly lying about it.
(7) This whole affair was a brazen attempt to intimidate those who believe that drilling for oil in the melting Arctic is reckless and unsafe.
(8) Sony Pictures has denounced a “brazen” cyberattack it said netted a “large amount” of confidential information, including movies as well as personnel and business files.
(9) "The offenders have for a long time been brazenly committing crimes, avoiding investigations and even ganging up to violently oppose law enforcement."
(10) The site was set up in Ukraine in 2001 and was described by the cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs as “the most brazen collection of carders, hackers and cyberthieves the internet had ever seen”.
(11) Or is its purpose to project an impression of Russian strength and confidence – which means that talking constantly about its brazen attitude only augments that perception?
(12) India has seen many scams before, but few have been as brazen and on such a scale as those that have come to light in recent weeks.
(13) The news stunned many across the country, leaving them to wonder how the government failed to convict members of an armed militia that brazenly occupied federal property and then broadcast it live on social media.
(14) Simon Danczuk, the current MP for Rochdale, who named Smith as an abuser two weeks ago on the floor of the Commons, said the case indicated he was a serial and brazen abuser over many decades.
(15) But if Facebook flirts too brazenly with commercial partners, it may see its growth slow down dramatically.
(16) The brazenness of Temme’s testimony ignited anger in the German press about the prerogatives of its intelligence agencies, but it has since mostly subsided.
(17) Then, once they’ve drained the place of its most unnecessary items, in a show of brazen materialism, they’ll photograph their receipt and post it online.
(18) While Guzmán nurtured his terrain and loyalty like a feudal lord beloved by his people, Los Zetas rule by brute, brazen terror.
(19) The self-employed – long believed to be the most brazen tax evaders – will be particularly hard hit with taxes of up to 35 per cent on income earned.
(20) The Guardian view on the generation gap: youth clubbed | Editorial Read more Last week’s budget was a particularly brazen case in point, as George Osborne scrapped maintenance grants for poorer university students (worth up to £3,387 a year), did away with housing benefit for 18 to 21 year olds and made one glaring exception to his new “national living wage”, which will rise to at least £9 by 2020: those under 25, who will be paid a lower minimum wage.
Effrontery
Definition:
(n.) Impudence or boldness in confronting or in transgressing the bounds of duty or decorum; insulting presumptuousness; shameless boldness; barefaced assurance.
Example Sentences:
(1) Anyway, he stood up there gripping the railing, and he was furious at the effrontery of this, and I guess he could already see that his plan was in danger.
(2) That corporations are people was not the great effrontery of the US supreme court's evisceration of democratic principle.
(3) Choking back tears of fury and laughter at the sheer effrontery of it all, Ronald Koeman will endeavour to keep a straight face while demanding £50m.
(4) Nobody had that effrontery to wear those kinds of outfits before."
(5) The effrontery of Cameron’s speech last Friday , opening public services to more privatising, suggests they are recklessly off the leash.
(6) No council leader would have had Livingstone’s shameless effrontery to suggest that those trying to stop the Heron Tower erupting on the skyline were the “heritage Taliban” .
(7) The other factor is that governments have become more vindictive in their pursuit of those who have had the effrontery to tell the truth about their activities.
(8) The sheer, sexist, chauvinistic, patronising effrontery of the man!
(9) He is not used to being confronted by people who have the power, the skill and the simple effrontery to challenge him – and to keep on challenging him.
(10) As the editor in question, I am not able to compete with Murdoch in fabrication – he has had a lifetime of experience – but I do happen to have retained my memory of the year editing the Times, made notes, kept documents and even had the effrontery to write a whole bestselling book about it in 1983, called Good Times, Bad Times.
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest London’s Heron Tower: ‘Ken Livingstone had the shameless effrontery to suggest that those trying to stop it erupting on the skyline were the heritage Taliban.’ Photograph: Alicia Canter for the Guardian It was a destiny made manifest in his decisions on everything from aesthetics to congestion charging.
(12) It is hard to put it better than the man who, during the election, reacted to the endorsement of the Conservative anti-tax campaign by Sir Philip and other big business beasts by saying: "I have no time for billionaire tax dodgers who step off the plane from their tax havens into the country where they make their money and have the effrontery to tell us how to vote and how to run our tax policies.
(13) He was already working at the extremes of the domestic and the risqué; his placid mother and child carvings contrasting with the sheer effrontery of such works as Votes for Women, an explicit carving showing the act of intercourse, woman of course on top.
(14) The Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman, Vince Cable, said: "I have no time for billionaire tax dodgers who step off the plane from their tax havens into the country where they make their money and have the effrontery to tell us how to vote and how to run our tax policies.
(15) The story continues thus: Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close Updated at 4.29pm BST 4.20pm BST Probably little more than barefaced effrontery on Brazil's part, but here's more on that Thiago Silva story .
(16) Osborne's jaw-dropping effrontery often leaves opponents winded.
(17) Avant-garde aesthetics and feminist politics now combined to produce an art of fearless effrontery.
(18) What effrontery for health ministers to flourish a list of 53 organisations they claim support the bill, including all the royal colleges, the King's Fund and the entire panoply of the medical establishment – without asking their permission.
(19) After reading about 400 graduates applying for an internship, the effrontery of being expected to pay £4.50 for a watery beer in a badly decorated pub is enough to make you want to stay in.
(20) Perhaps his effrontery inspired Tettey in the 32nd minute, when Hoolahan's cross was headed out to him.