What's the difference between brazen and intrepid?

Brazen


Definition:

  • (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.

Intrepid


Definition:

  • (a.) Not trembling or shaking with fear; fearless; bold; brave; undaunted; courageous; as, an intrepid soldier; intrepid spirit.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In a memo to AP staff, AP President Gary Pruitt remembered Niedringhaus as "spirited, intrepid and fearless, with a raucous laugh that we will always remember."
  • (2) The same intrepid, almost naive, fascination with a world shrouded in the icy fog of snobbery, deference, and class-consciousness animated Sampson.
  • (3) But the streets still have names such as Constitution Avenue and Intrepid Lane.
  • (4) From intrepid turtles to pioneering jellyfish, a host of animals have made their mark as the unsung heroes of space exploration.
  • (5) Clinton spent her preceding half-hour grilling on the Intrepid defending herself on her lax handling of classified information, a situation that a former navy lieutenant in the audience correctly observed would spell doom for a low-ranking service member.
  • (6) Pity the intrepid souls at Plastic Logic, who invented another reader, about to be launched any month now but which is ever so slightly, er, black and white.
  • (7) November In Mexico, the traditional Dia De Los Muertos festivities kicked off, and our intrepid reporter Kevin Rushby was there to capture the scenes.
  • (8) Once on the water, you have your way mapped out in the most unambiguous way, yet still feel intrepid.
  • (9) He was bright, intrepid, determined and full of character ... A very talented footballer and magnificent marine he had a lot to be proud of, yet I knew him to be an affable, generous, loyal and modest young man."
  • (10) It is particularly appropriate for an assemblage of protozoologists to pay homage to this intrepid "philosopher in little things," a man with an insatiable curiosity about his wee animalcules, on the tricentenary of his discovery of them, since it was an event of such long-lasting significance.
  • (11) He went down in the Hudson River abeam the Intrepid," he said, referring to a World War II-era aircraft carrier moored on the river as a museum.
  • (12) Fragments of medical information are recorded in the diaries of those early, intrepid explorers, such as Albert Cook, Henry Stanley, David Livingstone, and Albert Schweitzer.
  • (13) In recent years, some intrepid middle-class Indian and foreign expatriate cyclists have begun to brave Delhi's roads.
  • (14) In the meantime, however, the intrepid can play at being Indiana Jones at undeveloped sites on Phnom Kulen, and temple cities such as Beng Mealea and Koh Ker – and let their imaginations run wild.
  • (15) Ever since China reopened its doors to American releases in 1994, with the intrepid cultural ambassador that was The Fugitive, studios have fought hard to capture a fair share of the country's immense cinema audience, with artistic integrity often taking a back seat to the demands of a strict review board.
  • (16) Her literary path took her in the opposite direction to that of a fellow intrepid chronicler of the 20th century, JG Ballard .
  • (17) Supporters say they are the intrepid figureheads of a flourishing youth movement that is seeking an urgently-needed rupture with China’s authoritarian rulers.
  • (18) On MSNBC, he was asked if he had convinced his intrepid Iowan to vote for him in the state caucus, which kicks off the 2016 presidential contest on 1 February .
  • (19) The intrepid prehistoric hunter (Otzi) who was lost on a high mountain 5000 years ago and found last year was certainly an exception.
  • (20) In Poland, I remember Marta Krzystofowicz from those times as a graceful, intrepid conspirator for freedom.