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“barefaced”的英文意思

单词 barefaced
释义 barefaced, a.|ˈbɛəfeɪst|
(in use sometimes approaching an adv.; cf. barefoot, -ed).
1. With the face uncovered: hence
a. with no hair on the face, beardless, whiskerless, also fig.;
b. without mask or vizard.
1590Shakes. Mids. N. i. ii. 100 Some of your French Crownes haue no haire at all, and then you will play bare⁓fac'd.1602Ham. iv. v. 164 They bore him bare fac'd on the Beer.a1762Lady Montague Lett. xcii. 151 The..ball, to which he has invited a few bare-faced, and the whole town en masque.1869Blackmore Lorna D. vii. 37 Under the foot of a barefaced hill.1883Harper's Mag. Feb. 485/2 Though others be by whiskers graced, A lawyer can't be too barefaced [cf. 3 a].
2. Unconcealed, undisguised, avowed, open. arch.
1605Shakes. Macb. iii. i. 119 Though I could With bare⁓fac'd power sweepe him from my sight.1687R. Lestrange Answ. Diss. 1, I have liv'd Open and Barefac'd..I will not Dye in a Disguise.1766tr. Beccaria's Ess. Crimes xx. (1793) 77 The assaults of barefaced and open tyranny.
3. Hence by gradual pejoration: Audacious, impudent, shameless:
a. of persons,
b. of actions, etc.
a.a1674Clarendon Hist. Reb. (1704) III. xiii. 365 They barefaced own'd all that the Commissioners had propounded.1720Ozell Vertot's Rom. Rep. II. xiii. 260 That Cæsar was invading the Public Liberty, barefac'd.1838Dickens O. Twist iii, ‘Of all the artful and designing orphans..you are one of the most bare-facedest.’
b.1712Addison Spect. No. 458 ⁋7 Hypocrisy is not so pernicious as bare-faced Irreligion.1850Mrs. Stowe Uncle Tom's C. xx. 207 Indignant at the barefaced lie.
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