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BRAZEN

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Unrestrained by convention or propriety

Example:

the modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress

Synonyms:

audacious; bald-faced; barefaced; bodacious; brassy; brazen; brazen-faced; insolent

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

unashamed (used of persons or their behavior; feeling no shame)

Derivation:

brazenness (behavior marked by a bold defiance of the proprieties and lack of shame)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Made of or resembling brass (as in color or hardness)

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

brass (an alloy of copper and zinc)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Face with defiance or impudence

Example:

brazen it out

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "brazen" is one way to...):

dare; defy (challenge)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

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