brazen

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  1. adjective Marked by flagrant and insolent audacity. See Synonyms at shameless.
  2. adjective Having a loud, usually harsh, resonant sound: "sudden brazen clashes of the soldiers' band” (James Joyce).
  3. adjective Made of brass.
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  • The superpower's contempt for the sovereignty of other countries has been utterly brazen, an example of international lawlessness at its most arrogant. —  Recent articles from SocialistWorker.org
  • A hungry, brazen, and resourceful squirrel has broken into at least 2 kitchens by eating / ripping through window screens to get at food sitting on kitchen counters (even sealed food) within the last week. —  Queens Crap
  • "It's very brazen, and very concerning that something like this is done by force."
  • Best case: It was a huge, brazen, audacious, demonstrably outrageous lie. —  Media Matters for America - Limbaugh Wire
  • Iran is getting more brazen, and something needs to be done soon: —  Webloggin
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English brasen, made of brass, from Old English bræsen, from bræs, brass.

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  1. Early modern English also brasen, from Middle English brasen, from Anglo-Saxon bræsen, of brass, from brœs, brass, + -en.
  2. from brazen, adjective
 

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/ˈbreɪzn/
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