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brazen
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    I know what I have done and will brazen it out?  (source)
    brazen = be bold and unconcerned with what others consider proper
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    A brazen feeling had broken loose in me, a daring something that had been locked up in my chest.  (source)
    brazen = bold (unconcerned with what others think)
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    Paul's shock at the brazen lies had never waned.  (source)
    brazen = bold and improper
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    Teachers try t heir best to keep them organized, but this is a high school; the organized lines of elementary school fire drills are long gone, having been replaced by the brazen hormonal zigzags of kids whose bodies are too big for their own good.  (source)
    brazen = bold and unrestrained
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    Two days after arriving in the latter community, he brazenly knocked on the door of Edward Weston, who was sufficiently charmed by the overwrought young man to humor him.  (source)
    brazenly = unrestrained by convention or propriety
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    Pelor lifted his head, glaring at the Weapons Master with surprising brazenness.  (source)
    brazenness = boldness
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    Toward these, heartiness or brazening wasn't indicated, but what was necessary was to prove that in addition to everything he was also a lover.  (source)
    brazening = being bold and unconcerned with what others consider proper
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    We brazened our way into a movie and sat in the back row; here the sound got him even worse, and I was afraid he'd blow his top.  (source)
    brazened = went boldly
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    How great, therefore, and desirable must be a business that brazens the heart of a Bengali!'†  (source)
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    ...He rode in brazener than any feller thet ever stacked up against this outfit.†  (source)
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    The only way to keep from bleeding out is to take a stand against those who have already harmed you so that others will not be so brazen.  (source)
    brazen = bold and improper
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    Because both my brother and I could speak German and because the full villainy of the Germans was not yet evident, we brazenly questioned every German we thought might know something.  (source)
    brazenly = boldly
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    I don't know whether to admire the brazenness, or be angry you take me for such a fool.  (source)
    brazenness = boldness
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    Her skin had coarsened, tanned from all the time they were spending in the yard sitting beneath the brazen sun.  (source)
    brazen = brass-colored or unrestrained
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    While Davis chanted a traditional prayer-poem with his own variations, Joe mounted the box that had been placed for the purpose and opened the brazen door of the lamp.  (source)
    brazen = brass
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    At any moment, by an effort of his will, he could discern substances through their misty lack of substance, and convince himself that they were not solid in their nature, like yonder table of carved oak, or that big, square, leather-bound and brazen-clasped volume of divinity.  (source)
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    They were all displayed in that chamber of the Castle into which I had been first inducted, and which served, not only as the general sitting-room but as the kitchen too, if I might judge from a saucepan on the hob, and a brazen bijou over the fireplace designed for the suspension of a roasting-jack.  (source)
    brazen = brass
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    Sideways lashed in each of her three basketed tops were two barrels of sperm; above which, in her top-mast cross-trees, you saw slender breakers of the same precious fluid; and nailed to her main truck was a brazen lamp.  (source)
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    "Ali," cried he, striking at the same time on the brazen gong.  (source)
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    And now, the champion, having escaped from the terrible fury of the dragon, bethinking himself of the brazen shield, and of the breaking up of the enchantment which was upon it, removed the carcass from out of the way before him, and approached valorously over the silver pavement of the castle to where the shield was upon the wall;  (source)
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