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A barefaced, bald-faced or bold-faced lie is an impudent, brazen, shameless, flagrant, ... to be hypocritical, or act in a duplicitous manner.
As to his manner, I couldn't get a better word for it at the moment than "familiar", but I looked it up later in Jeeves's Dictionary of Synonyms and found that it had been unduly intimate, too free, forward, lacking in proper reserve, deficient in due respect, impudent, bold and intrusive.
The word "bold" may also be used as a synonym of "impudent"; for example, a child may be punished for being "bold" by acting disrespectfully toward an adult or by misbehaving. Boldness as a philosophical virtue was admired by the ancient Greeks. [2] Boldness may be contrasted with courage in that the latter implies having fear but confronting it.
The home of the Ob Master was presumably near the stronghold Samarovo in the mouth of the river Irtysh. According to their heathen belief he was the god of the fish, depicted in a most impudent manner: a board of wood, nose like a tin tube, eyes of glass, little horns on top of the head, covered with rags, attired in a (gilt breasted) purple robe.
Main article: 86 1. Soda-counter term meaning an item was no longer available 2. "Eighty-six" means to discard, eliminate, or deny service A abe's cabe 1. Five dollar bill 2.
Both manners and morality deal with whether a thing is morally good or bad, but at different levels. Unlike morality, which, for example, condemns murder as a violation of a person, manners primarily concerns itself with violations of human dignity , rather than the person's health or property. [ 3 ]
The New Oxford American Dictionary (NOAD) is a single-volume dictionary of American English compiled by American editors at the Oxford University Press.. NOAD is based upon the New Oxford Dictionary of English (NODE), published in the United Kingdom in 1998, although with substantial editing, additional entries, and the inclusion of illustrations.
a toady, creep or someone acting in an obsequious manner. [74] bumfreezer any short jacket, but in particular an Eton jacket. [74] bung 1. a gratuity or more often a bribe. [75] 2. Throw or pass energetically; as in, "bung it over here". [76] bunk 1. To leave inappropriately as in to 'bunk off' school or work. [75] 2. To run away in suspicious ...