bare-faced in AM and sometimes in BRIT, use barefaced emphasis You use bare-faced to describe someone's behaviour when you want to emphasize that they do not care that they are behaving wrongly. What bare-faced cheek! crooked politicians who tell bare-faced lies. = brazen, shameless
unrestrained by convention or propriety; "an audacious trick to pull"; "a barefaced hypocrite"; "the most bodacious display of tourism this side of Anaheim"- Los Angeles Times; "bold-faced lies"; "brazen arrogance"; "the modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress"- Bertrand Russell