Synonyms for brazen
ˈbreɪ zənbrazen

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1. audacious, barefaced, bodacious, bald-faced, brassy, brazen, brazen-faced, insolentadjective

   unrestrained by convention or propriety

   "an audacious trick to pull"; "a barefaced hypocrite"; "the most bodacious display of tourism this side of Anaheim"- Los Angeles Times; "bald-faced lies"; "brazen arrogance"; "the modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress"- Bertrand Russell

   Synonyms:
   brazen-faced, flip, meretricious, audacious, gimcrack, loud, brassy, flashy, intrepid, fearless, hardy, bodacious, venturous, daring, cheap, trashy, venturesome, brave, insolent, gaudy, garish, tatty, unfearing, bald, snotty-nosed, tawdry, brasslike, impudent, barefaced, bald-faced, dauntless, flash, tacky

   Antonyms:
   ashamed(p)

2. brazenverb

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

   Synonyms:
   audacious, bald-faced, brazen-faced, insolent, brassy, barefaced, bodacious

   Antonyms:
   ashamed(p)

3. brazenverb

   face with defiance or impudence

   "brazen it out"

   Antonyms:
   ashamed(p)

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1. brazenadjective

   Synonyms:
   made of brass

2. brazenadjective

   Synonyms:
   bold, BRAZEN-FACED

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1. List of paraphrases for "brazen":

   shameless, blatant, impudent, rude, flagrant, barefaced, audacious, insolent, cocky, snotty

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1. Kristie Small:

   I'm 100 % positive that is why I got fired, i think that is a bad state of affairs when someone in his position can be so brazen and so bold to do something like this.

2. Peter Harrell:

   They usually at least make an effort to repaint the sign, even if it is the same address and same cast of characters in front of you, operating 10 years without changing the name, that's pretty brazen.

3. Albert Einstein:

   There has already been published by the bucketfuls such brazen lies and utter fictions about me that I would long since have gone to my grave if I had let myself pay attention to that.

4. Carrie Severino:

   This President has been brazen about his willingness to take action that is normally reserved to Congress, the fact that the Court added the constitutional question means that some justices recognized that this is not a run of the mill act of prosecutorial discretion, but a novel and controversial power grab.

5. State John Kerry:

   Russia has engaged in an absolutely brazen and cynical process over these last days, we are talking about additional sanctions, about additional efforts, and I'm confident over the next days people will make it clear that we are not going to play this game.