His brazen act of defiance almost cost him his life.
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Brazen
//ˈbɹeɪzən//
Synonyms for "brazen" (253 found)
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Closest matches (51)
Strong matches (76)
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Related words (126)
huskyimmodestimpertinentimprovidentimprudentimpudentincautiousindiscreetinduratedinjudiciousinsolentinuredironironlikeleadleadenliver-brownliver-coloredlivid-brownlost to shame
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Adjective(1 words)
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19 entriesShowing 16 of 19 words.
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1 entriesTranslations
90 translations across 28 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- χάλκεος adj (pertaining to, made of, or resembling brass)
Armenian
1 entries- լիրբ adj (impudent, immodest, or shameless)
Bulgarian
3 entries- безсрамен adj (impudent, immodest, or shameless)
- бронзов adj (pertaining to, made of, or resembling brass)
- меден adj (pertaining to, made of, or resembling brass)
Cebuano
1 entries- bagag nawong adj (impudent, immodest, or shameless)
Czech
4 entries- bezostyšný adj (impudent, immodest, or shameless)
- mosazný adj (pertaining to, made of, or resembling brass)
- nestoudný adj (impudent, immodest, or shameless)
- nestydatý adj (impudent, immodest, or shameless)
Dutch
4 entries- brutaal adj (impudent, immodest, or shameless)
- grof adj (impudent, immodest, or shameless)
- keihard adj (extremely strong)
- koperachtig adj (pertaining to, made of, or resembling brass)
Esperanto
1 entries- bronza adj (pertaining to, made of, or resembling brass)
Finnish
4 entries- julkea adj (impudent, immodest, or shameless)
- messinkinen adj (pertaining to, made of, or resembling brass)
- metallinen adj (sounding harsh and loud)
- rautainen adj (extremely strong)
French
4 entries- aigu adj (sounding harsh and loud)
- brutal adj (impudent, immodest, or shameless)
- cuivreux adj (pertaining to, made of, or resembling brass)
- dur comme de la pierre adj (extremely strong)
Galician
2 entries- descarado adj (impudent, immodest, or shameless)
- insolente adj (impudent, immodest, or shameless)
German
4 entries- Messing adj (pertaining to, made of, or resembling brass)
- aus Messing adj (pertaining to, made of, or resembling brass)
- blechern adj (sounding harsh and loud)
- dreist adj (impudent, immodest, or shameless)
Irish
1 entries- dalba adj (impudent, immodest, or shameless)
Italian
4 entries- faccia di bronzo adj (impudent, immodest, or shameless)
- ottonato adj (pertaining to, made of, or resembling brass)
- ottone adj (pertaining to, made of, or resembling brass)
- sfacciato adj (impudent, immodest, or shameless)
Latin
1 entries- protervus adj (impudent, immodest, or shameless)
Macedonian
1 entries- месинган adj (pertaining to, made of, or resembling brass)
Mycenaean Greek
1 entries- 𐀏𐀑𐀍 adj (pertaining to, made of, or resembling brass)
Māori
3 entries- whakametometo adj (impudent, immodest, or shameless)
- whakatoatoa adj (impudent, immodest, or shameless)
- āhua parāhe adj (pertaining to, made of, or resembling brass)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- frekk adj (impudent, immodest, or shameless)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- frekk adj (impudent, immodest, or shameless)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- onveschämt adj (impudent, immodest, or shameless)
Polish
4 entries- arogancki adj (impudent, immodest, or shameless)
- bezczelny adj (impudent, immodest, or shameless)
- bezwstydny adj (impudent, immodest, or shameless)
- hucpiarski adj (impudent, immodest, or shameless)
Portuguese
1 entries- descarado adj (impudent, immodest, or shameless)
Russian
4 entries- бессо́вестный adj (impudent, immodest, or shameless)
- бессты́жий adj (impudent, immodest, or shameless)
- де́рзкий adj (impudent, immodest, or shameless)
- латунный adj (pertaining to, made of, or resembling brass)
Spanish
1 entries- descarado adj (impudent, immodest, or shameless)
Swedish
1 entries- fräck adj (impudent, immodest, or shameless)
Tagalog
1 entries- makapal ang mukha adj (impudent, immodest, or shameless)
Thai
1 entries- หน้าด้าน adj (impudent, immodest, or shameless)
Ukrainian
4 entries- безсоро́мний adj (impudent, immodest, or shameless)
- зухвалий adj (impudent, immodest, or shameless)
- латунний adj (pertaining to, made of, or resembling brass)
- нахабний adj (impudent, immodest, or shameless)
Sample sentences
30 total sentences available.
Mary claims that Google Translate translates better than I do. That is a brazen lie.
Source: tatoeba (3058370)
Scarce out of sight of Sicily, they set / their sails to sea, and merrily ploughed the main, / with brazen beaks, when Juno, harbouring yet / within her breast the ever-ranking pain, / mused thus: "Must I then from the work refrain, / nor keep this Trojan from the Latin throne, / baffled, forsooth, because the Fates constrain?"
Source: tatoeba (6778936)
"Then wars shall cease and savage times grow mild, / and Remus and Quirinus, brethren twain, / with hoary Faith and Vesta undefiled, / shall give the law. With iron bolt and chain / firm-closed the gates of Janus shall remain. / Within, the Fiend of Discord, high reclined / on horrid arms, unheeded in the fane, / bound with a hundred brazen knots behind, / and grim with gory jaws, his grisly teeth shall grind."
Source: tatoeba (6786685)
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