1580s, "with face uncovered or shaven;" see bare (adj.) + face (n.). Thus, "unconcealed" (c. 1600), and, in a bad sense, "shameless" (1670s). Compare effrontery. The half-French bare-vis (adj.) conveyed the same sense in Middle English.
雙語例句
1. The most furious anarchist become the most barefaced apostate.
最激烈的無政府主義者,居然成了最露骨的變節(jié)者.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
2. What barefaced cheek!
真是厚顏無恥！
來自辭典例句
3. For barefaced lying you are really it.
以無恥造謠而論,你真算得上天下第一.
來自辭典例句
4. Oh, come you know, this is too barefaced.
唔,喂, 你們知道, 這簡直太無恥了.
來自辭典例句
5. It's barefaced robbery asking such a high price for that old bicycle!