barefaced cheek

Frequency: 4.82.9 per million words

Open and shameless rudeness or audacity.

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Examples (10)

  • He had the barefaced cheek to ask for a raise after being caught sleeping at his desk.
  • I couldn't believe the barefaced cheek of my colleague taking credit for my work.
  • The politician's denial of the scandal, despite the evidence, was an act of barefaced cheek.
  • To show up at the party after what she did? What barefaced cheek!
  • It takes some barefaced cheek to lie so blatantly to a judge.
  • Imagine the barefaced cheek it would take to demand a refund for a meal you'd already eaten.
  • She was stunned by the barefaced cheek of the salesman who tried to overcharge her.
  • The sheer barefaced cheek of him, asking to borrow my car again after crashing it last time!
  • After arriving an hour late, he had the barefaced cheek to complain that the meeting started without him.
  • He tried to sell me my own stolen watch—I've never witnessed such barefaced cheek.