(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.
Impudent
Definition:
(a.) Bold, with contempt or disregard; unblushingly forward; impertinent; wanting modesty; shameless; saucy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Yet it was still an encouraging victory for Mourinho’s team and a difficult afternoon for Tottenham Hotspur was probably summed up by the moment Dele Alli, the impudent young buck, tried to upstage Michael Carrick by slipping the ball through his opponent’s legs.
(2) Ozil is an impudent playmaker who usually flits behind the lone striker, finding space and creating opportunities with his sublime left foot.
(3) She says she saw the girls' "devilish twitching" and "committing impudences".
(4) Caballero could not keep out Emre Can’s impudent little pitch-wedge to get the penalties underway but thereafter he was unbeatable, diving to his left to turn away a decent attempt by Lucas Leiva, a hesitant one from Philippe Coutinho, and then the other way to beat out Adam Lallana’s effort for his third successive save.
(5) Henderson skied a glorious chance over from Sterling's pass and it needed an instinctive save from Lloris to prevent Sturridge scoring with an impudent back-heel.
(6) Robbing the Royal Mail was, as the trial judge, Mr Justice Edmund Davies, told Biggs , "a crime which, in its impudence and enormity, is the first of its kind in this country."
(7) The nutmeg from Messi left him on his backside and, high in the stands, Pep Guardiola could be seen with his head in his hands, howling with laughter at the impudence of his former player.
(8) The judge told them, as he sent them away for 30 years, that it was “a crime which in its impudence and enormity is the first of its kind in this country.
(9) Arsenal played at times as if it would have been impudent to trouble the Spaniard.
(10) Chelsea were stunned, almost into submission and when Lanzini, whose impudent touches and ease on the ball made him a delight to watch, carved them open with a delightful backheel, Aaron Cresswell would have made it 2-0 if Branislav Ivanovic had not deflected his effort past the left post.
(11) Both players scored within three minutes of one another and, however impudent it was for Mourinho to shake Ferguson's hand and set off for the dugout with the final exchanges of stoppage time still to be played, the truth is the game had already been won.
(12) New junior doctors' contract changes everything I signed up for Read more With sickness levels running at record levels, you would expect the government to act more sensitively and with less impudence.
(13) As a reward for my impudence, I was sent on my way with a pat on the shoulder, a "well done, son".
(14) He decorated a driving performance with an impudent nutmeg on Luka Modric.
(15) What kind of a union of partners treats one of its members like a recalcitrant colony, destroys its economy if it steps out of line, and dismisses its democracy as an impudent affront?
(16) Before being cut off by a prison official, Tolokonnikova said: "I hope they don't have the impudence to jail him – because, after all, he is even more of a media figure among the people than the members of Pussy Riot, at least in Russia .
(17) But instead of closing ranks and crushing this impudent upstart, Cameron and Brown fell over themselves to win his support.
(18) "It has become a symbol of women's freedom in western nations and with impudence they want to free her," the foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast protested last month.
(19) Add ingenious, impudent finishing and you have a footballer who truly quickens the pulse."
(20) Yet it is not so easy understanding why Rooney, playing so well in his new midfield role, needs to be rested (England’s next game would not be until Saturday at the earliest) and it is worth keeping in mind Slovakia beat Spain in qualifying and were impudent enough to win 3-1 when Germany invited them to Augsburg for a friendly a few weeks ago.