" a barefaced liar"
definition of 'barefaced': bold, audacious, impudent, or shameless.
example: "Many boys in my neighbourhood group were brought up with no parental guidance and several were barefaced liars."
origin: Shakespeare first recorded "barefaced" in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' as "beardless, with no hair upon the face" . By 1825, the phrase became "the barefacedness of the lie", and Harriet Beecher Stowe writes of a barefaced lie in Uncle Tom's Cabin.
definition of 'barefaced': bold, audacious, impudent, or shameless.
example: "Many boys in my neighbourhood group were brought up with no parental guidance and several were barefaced liars."
origin: Shakespeare first recorded "barefaced" in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' as "beardless, with no hair upon the face" . By 1825, the phrase became "the barefacedness of the lie", and Harriet Beecher Stowe writes of a barefaced lie in Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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