barefaced cheek
Frequency: 4.82.9 per million words
Open and shameless rudeness or audacity.
Categories:
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.