brazen
pronunciation
How to pronounce brazen in British English:
UK [ˈbreɪzn]
How to pronounce brazen in American English:
US [ˈbrezən]
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- Verb:
- face with defiance or impudence
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- Adjective:
- unrestrained by convention or propriety
- made of or resembling brass (as in color or hardness)
Word Origin
- brazen (adj.)
- Old English bræsen "of brass," from bræs "brass" (see brass) + -en (2). The figurative sense of "hardened in effrontery" is 1570s (in brazen-face), perhaps suggesting a face unable to show shame (see brass). To brazen it out "face impudently" is from 1550s.
Example
- 1. The practice was extensive and brazen .
- 2. It seemed that many people could not bear the presumption , the brazen predestination .
- 3. His face had gone beyond brazen expectation to the impatient question , " how ? "
- 4. In bulgaria brazen attempts to rig a nuclearpower tender seem to have left politicians helpless .
- 5. In a brazen move , kenya 's parliament voted in december to pull the east african nation out of the icc .