Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Brash; undisguised.
- adjective Zoology Having a white face or face markings.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a white face or white on the face: said of animals: as, a bald-faced stag.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having a white face or a white mark on the face, as a stag.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of an animal having white markings on the face.
- adjective shameless and undisguised;
barefaced
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of animals) having white markings on the face
- adjective unrestrained by convention or propriety
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Examples
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Mr. Waldman declined to provide a copy of the letter, but said it alleges that Silvercorp overstated its profits, cash on its balance sheet and the quality and value of its silver deposits, which he called "bald-faced lies."
Silvercorp Rebuts Allegations Edward Welsch 2011
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City Councilman Jumaane Williams: NYPD Lying About West Indian Day Parade Incident detained by police at the West Indian Day parade said today that it wouldn't have happened if he had been white - and denounced what he called a "bald-faced lie" from the NYPD's top spokesman.
NY Daily News 2011
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Stop trying to change the meme into “too much Obama policy”, as that is a bald-faced lie.
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Becky might be crazier and Bill0 might be meaner but Inshannity is just a bald-faced liar.
Think Progress » McCain Backs Down To Hannity: ‘I Never Quite Understood’ Global Warming 2010
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Quite aside from the overt sin of presuming to legislate the mind of God, there is the bald-faced infantilism of presuming to legislate the mind of another person.
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Yes, db, how could pinning down lying hypocrites with their bald-faced lies possibly be of any importance?
Think Progress » Sarah Palin calls global warming studies ‘snake oil science.’ 2010
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Salisbury's response: I haven't addressed it because it's so absurd and such a bald-faced lie from what the speculation is out there from media outlets and Internet and bloggers that hop on and want to beat you up because they don't like my opinion in football.
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That claim, as already noted, is not only false it is a bald-faced lie.
Think Progress » Obama explains climate science to global warming deniers. 2010
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I first heard about this amazing, bald-faced lying liar over a year ago on what was then a pretty new blog -- a fresh faced, take-on-all-comers tyro named Ace of Spades.
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It is an infantile and utterly bald-faced lie that anyone is claiming that CO2 is “the most common” GHG.
Think Progress » Obama explains climate science to global warming deniers. 2010
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