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Definition of brazen in English: brazenadjective ˈbreɪz(ə)nˈbreɪzən 1Bold and without shame. 无耻的，恬不知耻的，厚颜无耻的；肆无忌惮的 he went about his illegal business with a brazen assurance 他厚着脸皮、信心十足地干那些不法勾当。 一个厚颜无耻的荡妇。 Example sentencesExamples - The challenge is to win the fight to be ordinary - not to be forced into the role of camp court jesters or brazen sapphic hussies.
- However, sometimes a brazen BFF is so bold, brash and fearless that her naughty behavior threatens to get you both in deep trouble.
- I do not know that, but I know a brazen hussy when I see one.
- While child abduction is nothing new, the perpetrators are becoming bolder and more brazen.
- The brazen birds are becoming bolder by the year, encouraged by litter from takeaway meals and thoughtless people who throw them food.
- The book is subtitled ‘bold females and their brazen acts.’
- The fact that there was a time when a respectable woman could only pop the question herself in one year out of every four, without appearing forward and brazen, is downright amazing.
- Of course, Carole was ignored, the brazen hussy!
- The brazen hussy (as Mrs. Chadwick fondly refers to her) then strolls off in search of a stiff drink.
- Is he going to be this brazen, this bold all the time?
- No one at Wentworth was brazen enough to make a bold prediction.
- I mean, my standards weren't set too high as I knew her acting ability was probably limited to playing a brazen hussy with a deep voice, but still.
- From the first page on, there's a blunt, blatant, even brazen certainty in this work.
- I won't be surprised if the striking ‘colonels’ have been generously compensated for their brazen defiance of military norms.
- Emmanuelle scoffed as she met his eyes with brazen defiance.
- Packs of dogs roam the streets of South America - collarless and brazen, unabashedly unneutered.
- But the only man she was concerned about stood bold and brazen in front.
- Each time P. would try to apply a layer within paw's reach Cindy would swat at the tube as if to say, ‘No human of mine is going out looking like a brazen hussy.’
- How can such brazen defiance of health and safety regulations be tolerated?
- Here you cannot ignore, barefaced and brazen, the meaning of a ruinous global orthodoxy.
Synonyms bold, shameless, as bold as brass, brazen-faced, forward, presumptuous, brash, immodest, unashamed, unabashed, unembarrassed, unblushing defiant, impudent, insolent, impertinent, cheeky, pert barefaced, blatant, flagrant, undisguised informal brassy, pushy British informal saucy 2archaic, literary Made of brass. 〈主诗/文〉黄铜制的 Example sentencesExamples - In the circuit of the wall are 100 gates, all of brass with brazen lintels.
- Here, you can find traces of human residences, including a neglected paddy field, collapsed stone walls, and broken nickel silverware and brazen kitchenware.
- Among the Barcaeans there was a skilled worker in brass who took a brazen shield and, carrying it round within the wall, applied it here and there at places where he thought the workings might be.
- It provided easy access into the building for the items that both vestries and vandals are fond of: silverware, brassware, bells and brazen censers.
Synonyms brass, made of brass, metallic - 2.1 Harsh in sound.
（声音）响而刺耳的 the music's brazen chords 这首曲子那刺耳的和弦。 Example sentencesExamples - David asked, hoping to make himself sound brazen as he returned the phone to his ear.
- At the heel of that brazen din, the bullhorn sounded again - the fishing boats scattered enough that the ferry could squeeze along the length of the pier.
- It was harsh, brazen, forward, passionate, and abrasive.
- The first movement is full of blistering winds and brazen sounds, as from an ancient, pagan army.
- This is the first good 60s track we've had, it sounds like a brazen attempt to keep ‘up to date’, fusing beat elements to Shannon's basic unchanging style.
verb ˈbreɪz(ə)nˈbreɪzən [with object]brazen something outEndure an embarrassing or difficult situation by behaving with apparent confidence and lack of shame. 厚着脸皮硬挺 there was nothing to do but brazen it out Example sentencesExamples - Yet I imagine he'll brazen it out like all those other high-flyers schmoozed by employee benefit consultants into thinking like supermodels.
- You were under the influence of a violent and controlling man, but you have shown no remorse - you brazened the trial out.
- It was clear that she was trying to brazen it out, but it wasn't entirely working.
- There was no escaping it - I would have to brazen it out.
- He was forced into an admission, including the use of 2,000 prepaid envelopes to send out the forgery, and hoped to brazen things out with an apology.
- The government is short of cash and will likely brazen it out.
- But whether they choose to brazen it out or humbly confess, sue for libel or live like a recluse, there is little the disgraced can do to stop the frisson of pleasure we feel at their discomfort.
- I'm not sure I'd be as confident in my abilities - or at least in my ability to brazen it out when I was wrong.
- The signs that Mr Molloy was brazening things out meant things were getting better and better for the Opposition.
- They just decide to brazen it out and here am I left out in the cold.
- Is anyone in this Government prepared to take political responsibility for what has occurred or are they simply going to brazen it out as normal?
- The alternative is to brazen it out and relish the impact you make.
- Of course, if we had brazened it out a bit more people might hardly have noticed.
- If he's prepared to brazen it out with the handbag, why not with the geek pie?
- As one veteran prison officer said: ‘Jamieson is brazening it out but she must be sitting at home this weekend with her fingers crossed that nothing else goes wrong.’
- She was talking too loudly, brazening it out, but since she wouldn't talk about what was really bothering her, there wasn't anything I could do.
- In some scenes Bond brazens it out, fists flailing or guns blazing, to pick off the enemy, but most of the time greater cunning is needed.
- But anyone with a friend or relative in the US, and an inclination to do so, will blithely continue to brazen it out with the traffic law enforcers.
- In one way, you might argue, if what was involved was unimportant - a parking ticket or whatever - the instinctive knee-jerk reaction to cover it up, to brazen it out was peripheral enough in the great scheme of things.
- He had only one option - to brazen it out and hope that, like Benedict Arnold, he would survive.
Synonyms put on a bold front, put a bold face on it, be defiant, be unrepentant, be impenitent, be unashamed, be unabashed, stand one's ground
OriginOld English bræsen 'made of brass', from bræs 'brass', of unknown ultimate origin. Rhymesblazon, emblazon, liaison, raisin Definition of brazen in US English: brazenadjectiveˈbrāzənˈbreɪzən 1Bold and without shame. 无耻的，恬不知耻的，厚颜无耻的；肆无忌惮的 he went about his illegal business with a brazen assurance 他厚着脸皮、信心十足地干那些不法勾当。 一个厚颜无耻的荡妇。 Example sentencesExamples - The fact that there was a time when a respectable woman could only pop the question herself in one year out of every four, without appearing forward and brazen, is downright amazing.
- Here you cannot ignore, barefaced and brazen, the meaning of a ruinous global orthodoxy.
- Packs of dogs roam the streets of South America - collarless and brazen, unabashedly unneutered.
- The brazen birds are becoming bolder by the year, encouraged by litter from takeaway meals and thoughtless people who throw them food.
- But the only man she was concerned about stood bold and brazen in front.
- I mean, my standards weren't set too high as I knew her acting ability was probably limited to playing a brazen hussy with a deep voice, but still.
- No one at Wentworth was brazen enough to make a bold prediction.
- How can such brazen defiance of health and safety regulations be tolerated?
- Is he going to be this brazen, this bold all the time?
- I do not know that, but I know a brazen hussy when I see one.
- The book is subtitled ‘bold females and their brazen acts.’
- Emmanuelle scoffed as she met his eyes with brazen defiance.
- While child abduction is nothing new, the perpetrators are becoming bolder and more brazen.
- From the first page on, there's a blunt, blatant, even brazen certainty in this work.
- Of course, Carole was ignored, the brazen hussy!
- The brazen hussy (as Mrs. Chadwick fondly refers to her) then strolls off in search of a stiff drink.
- Each time P. would try to apply a layer within paw's reach Cindy would swat at the tube as if to say, ‘No human of mine is going out looking like a brazen hussy.’
- I won't be surprised if the striking ‘colonels’ have been generously compensated for their brazen defiance of military norms.
- However, sometimes a brazen BFF is so bold, brash and fearless that her naughty behavior threatens to get you both in deep trouble.
- The challenge is to win the fight to be ordinary - not to be forced into the role of camp court jesters or brazen sapphic hussies.
Synonyms bold, shameless, as bold as brass, brazen-faced, forward, presumptuous, brash, immodest, unashamed, unabashed, unembarrassed, unblushing 2literary, archaic Made of brass. 〈主诗/文〉黄铜制的 Example sentencesExamples - Here, you can find traces of human residences, including a neglected paddy field, collapsed stone walls, and broken nickel silverware and brazen kitchenware.
- It provided easy access into the building for the items that both vestries and vandals are fond of: silverware, brassware, bells and brazen censers.
- Among the Barcaeans there was a skilled worker in brass who took a brazen shield and, carrying it round within the wall, applied it here and there at places where he thought the workings might be.
- In the circuit of the wall are 100 gates, all of brass with brazen lintels.
Synonyms brass, made of brass, metallic - 2.1 Harsh in sound.
（声音）响而刺耳的 the music's brazen chords 这首曲子那刺耳的和弦。 Example sentencesExamples - This is the first good 60s track we've had, it sounds like a brazen attempt to keep ‘up to date’, fusing beat elements to Shannon's basic unchanging style.
- It was harsh, brazen, forward, passionate, and abrasive.
- The first movement is full of blistering winds and brazen sounds, as from an ancient, pagan army.
- David asked, hoping to make himself sound brazen as he returned the phone to his ear.
- At the heel of that brazen din, the bullhorn sounded again - the fishing boats scattered enough that the ferry could squeeze along the length of the pier.
verbˈbrāzənˈbreɪzən [with object]brazen something outEndure an embarrassing or difficult situation by behaving with apparent confidence and lack of shame. 厚着脸皮硬挺 Example sentencesExamples - As one veteran prison officer said: ‘Jamieson is brazening it out but she must be sitting at home this weekend with her fingers crossed that nothing else goes wrong.’
- The alternative is to brazen it out and relish the impact you make.
- They just decide to brazen it out and here am I left out in the cold.
- It was clear that she was trying to brazen it out, but it wasn't entirely working.
- Yet I imagine he'll brazen it out like all those other high-flyers schmoozed by employee benefit consultants into thinking like supermodels.
- The government is short of cash and will likely brazen it out.
- The signs that Mr Molloy was brazening things out meant things were getting better and better for the Opposition.
- But whether they choose to brazen it out or humbly confess, sue for libel or live like a recluse, there is little the disgraced can do to stop the frisson of pleasure we feel at their discomfort.
- In one way, you might argue, if what was involved was unimportant - a parking ticket or whatever - the instinctive knee-jerk reaction to cover it up, to brazen it out was peripheral enough in the great scheme of things.
- Of course, if we had brazened it out a bit more people might hardly have noticed.
- She was talking too loudly, brazening it out, but since she wouldn't talk about what was really bothering her, there wasn't anything I could do.
- He was forced into an admission, including the use of 2,000 prepaid envelopes to send out the forgery, and hoped to brazen things out with an apology.
- If he's prepared to brazen it out with the handbag, why not with the geek pie?
- In some scenes Bond brazens it out, fists flailing or guns blazing, to pick off the enemy, but most of the time greater cunning is needed.
- Is anyone in this Government prepared to take political responsibility for what has occurred or are they simply going to brazen it out as normal?
- There was no escaping it - I would have to brazen it out.
- I'm not sure I'd be as confident in my abilities - or at least in my ability to brazen it out when I was wrong.
- You were under the influence of a violent and controlling man, but you have shown no remorse - you brazened the trial out.
- But anyone with a friend or relative in the US, and an inclination to do so, will blithely continue to brazen it out with the traffic law enforcers.
- He had only one option - to brazen it out and hope that, like Benedict Arnold, he would survive.
Synonyms put on a bold front, put a bold face on it, be defiant, be unrepentant, be impenitent, be unashamed, be unabashed, stand one's ground
Phrasal Verbsbrazen it (or something) out
OriginOld English bræsen ‘made of brass’, from bræs ‘brass’, of unknown ultimate origin. |