Brazen (Adjective)
Meaning 1
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.
Classification
All adjective clusters.
Examples
- The brazen confidence of the young entrepreneur was admirable, but also intimidated her interviewer.
- He made a brazen attempt to bribe the judge, which backfired spectacularly.
- The politician's brazen disregard for the truth was staggering, and her opponents quickly pounced on her hypocrisy.
- The thieves carried out a brazen daylight robbery, fleeing the scene with ease and leaving no witnesses to identify them.
- The activist's brazen challenge to the authority of the corrupt government official inspired many others to follow her lead.
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Meaning 2
Made of or resembling brass (as in color or hardness).
Classification
Relational adjectives (pertainyms).
Examples
- The sculpture was cast in brazen tones, radiating warmth in the museum gallery.
- She walked with brazen confidence, her brash mannerisms mirroring the brightness of the jewelry around her neck.
- Her fiery locks seemed almost brazen against the autumn backdrop of yellow, orange, and crimson hues.
- Atop the bell tower stood the grand figure with skin in shades of dark and light, tones turning out from earthen toward its burnished and faintly brazen heart.
- Looking quite stalwart beside modern housing constructions of simple flat windows were nearby wooden fort facades protected to greater intensity now looking pretty finely grain surface worked pretty significantly including lovely with newly smooth full glossy gilte fairly now visible many surface changes exhibiting gold showing lots not shining lighter shade: what bright clean perfect white at sunset rich polished somewhat dusty near low faint clearly truly sparkling strongly good perhaps what came golden what rose little seemed highly intense newly having brighter sometimes different bronz dark which remains nice silver often looked beautifully softly a nearly shimmer truly when out appearing particularly fair glided clear most silver gleam appearing black faded though metallic sil having red burn over through various gray under shadow moving most into becoming warmer pretty from left sometimes various fair surface sh shiny different mostly varying perhaps remaining clearer looked down newly although generally low visible perfect visible down so higher usually appears up close on certain dull yellow fine.