barefaced

/ˈbɛrˌfeɪst/
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If masked means hidden, barefaced means unconcealed. If you get caught speeding and reach into your wallet and hand the officer $20, that’s a barefaced attempt at a bribe.

Barefaced — or as it's sometimes known, bald-faced — behavior is always bold and sometimes shameless. Nonchalantly telling a security guard at the jewelry store that you "plain forgot" you'd slipped the necklace into your pocket is a barefaced lie and shameless to boot. A reporter's barefaced questioning of a mayor found to be stealing from city treasury carries no shame, on the other hand — at least not for the reporter.

Definitions of barefaced
  1. adjective
    with no effort to conceal
    “a barefaced lie”
    synonyms: bald
    open, overt
    open and observable; not secret or hidden
  2. adjective
    not held back by conventional ideas of behavior
    “a barefaced hypocrite”
    synonyms: audacious, bald-faced, bodacious, brassy, brazen, brazen-faced, insolent
    unashamed
    used of persons or their behavior; feeling no shame
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