EGAVE

brazen

About 0.86 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Made of brass.
  2. adjective Brass-like in appearance or character; bright, ruddy, hard.
  3. adjective Sounding harsh and loud, like brass cymbals or brass instruments.
  4. adjective Extremely strong; impenetrable; resolute.
  5. adjective Shameless or impudent; shocking or audacious; brash. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
    She was brazen enough to deny stealing the handbag even though she was caught on camera doing so.
  6. verb To turn a brass color.
  7. verb Generally followed by out or through: to carry through in a brazen manner; to act boldly despite embarrassment, risk, etc.

Similar words

brassy bodacious audacious insolent bold-faced barefaced brazen-faced unashamed snotty bold

Often followed by

serpent and it head altar as enough gates statue

Word family

brazened brazening brazenly brazenness brazennesses brazens

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