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 brazen ['brezən]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 黄铜制的, 厚颜无耻的

vt. 厚脸皮地对待


  1. He was startled by the brazen notes of the horns.
    喇叭洪亮的声音把他吓了一跳。
  2. It was brazen of him to say so!
    他这样说真是无耻!
  3. You brazen hussy!
    你这个不要脸的婊子!


brazen
[ verb ]
  1. face with defiance or impudence

  2. <verb.communication>
    brazen it out
[ adj ]
  1. made of or resembling brass (as in color or hardness)

  2. <adj.pert>
  3. unrestrained by convention or propriety

  4. <adj.all>
    an audacious trick to pull
    a barefaced hypocrite
    the most bodacious display of tourism this side of Anaheim
    bald-faced lies
    brazen arrogance
    the modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress


Brazen \Bra"zen\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Brazened}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Brazening}.]
To carry through impudently or shamelessly; as, to brazen the
matter through.

Sabina brazened it out before Mrs. Wygram, but inwardly
she was resolved to be a good deal more circumspect.
--W. Black.


Brazen \Bra"zen\, a.[OE. brasen, AS. br[ae]sen. See {Brass}.]
1. Pertaining to, made of, or resembling, brass.

2. Sounding harsh and loud, like resounding brass.

3. Impudent; immodest; shameless; having a front like brass;
as, a brazen countenance.

{Brazen age}.
(a) (Myth.) The age of war and lawlessness which succeeded
the silver age.
(b) (Arch[ae]ol.) See under {Bronze}.

{Brazen sea} (Jewish Antiq.), a large laver of brass, placed
in Solomon's temple for the use of the priests.

  1. It's a low-brow, a bumper-sticker mentality." Philip Perlmutter, executive director of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston, called the ad campaign "to me a brazen example of propaganda and hypocrisy.
  2. But after a while, Sullivan said, "They were being so brazen that they would just retreat to the stairwell and wait for the uniformed cop to leave." Then they'd return to business, in full sight of the token clerk, whose business dwindled.
  3. Breaking his silence on the unrest, Ceausescu on Wednesday blamed the weekend protests on "hooligans" incited by "a brazen campaign of slander and lies" from abroad, especially Hungary.
  4. Neighbors of the north Harlem neighborhood call it "Drug City," and describe a life in which gunfire is common and drug dealers so brazen they can grant or withhold permission for a person to enter his own apartment building.
  5. I hope Mr. Wigton can prove his innocence, and sue the pants off the brazen government agents.
  6. Nine paintings that vanished in a brazen 1985 theft, including the Monet masterpiece that gave impressionism its name, returned to Paris on Thursday after police found them in a Corsican villa.
  7. The more brazen simply stop making payments on their marine mortgages and find themselves face-to-face with Simon Lyon-Smith, a specialist in the arcane business of marine repossession. 'You used to be able to borrow 100 per cent against the right ship.
  8. The American people are troubled when they hear of officials in every branch of government, at whatever level of government, who show a brazen contempt for the letter or spirit of the law.
  9. The Groucho character is a brazen con man who operates the Cocoanut Hotel and sells worthless real estate on the adjoining beach.
  10. The NEC is the kind of fantastically brazen institution typical of modern Washington.
  11. And if you are caught or if people complain, simply argue that "everyone does it" or "no one said I shouldn't " and brazen it out.
  12. Incredibly, there are some workaholics who actually applaud her brazen indolence.
  13. The new flurry of controversy reveals a brazen streak in Mr. Saito that he has exhibited before.
  14. They also were said to be dismayed at the brazen greed exhibited by Johnson, who originally offered $75 a share for the company in what he admitted was a deliberate buy-low approach.
  15. Laurence Fox, the lead attorney for New York Chinese at the New York firm of Berger & Steingut, called U.E.'s defense a "red herring injected by the defendants to deflect attention from their brazen violations of the copyright laws."
  16. The brazen Mr. Walsh eschewed a requirement that he consult with U.S. intelligence agencies before bringing sweeping charges that raised the prospect of a sweeping defense based on classified documents.
  17. Having reached agreement with the Esab board and Incentive, Charter executives proclaimed that the rising Esab share price - usually on low volumes - was nothing more than a brazen attempt to squeeze more out of the bidder.
  18. Senators have become just as brazen as their House brethren in shutting out competition.
  19. And to some extent, it's a pretty brazen courtship." For the network anchors and star correspondents, the aim of the game is publicity for their news programs.
  20. Some expressed concern that Mr Major was failing the test of his authority created by Mr Mates's attempts to brazen out calls for him to resign.
  21. On Tuesday he said he had the 'full confidence' of the prime minister - suggesting he was determined to brazen out the calls for him to resign. The latest controversy has added to Mr Major's difficulties in exerting his leadership credentials.
  22. As a crack helicopter pilot, he was a coldly efficient killer skimming across the jungles of Vietnam or a brazen bandit swooping down on target banks in Texas, Louisiana and Nevada.
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