WOTW #14 brazen

This week’s word is brought to you by the letter ‘B’.

Brazen‘ has two meanings:

a) Made of brass; a term used mostly in older styles of English. e.g. a brazen cup

b) bold and without shame.

Synonyms include: blatant, bold, shameless, impudent, unabashed.

Examples of use for the second meaning:

  1. In a brazen assault, the robbers fired their weapons at the policeman.
  2. The brazen thief broke into the jewellery store even though he knew he knew they had a good security system.
  3. When I wasn’t looking, my brazen pet dog jumped up the table and stole my piece of roast chicken fillet.
  4. The brazen reporter did not hesitate to ask the star an unsuitable question.
  5. The opposition leader’s speech was full of brazen accusations of corruption and impropriety.
  6. When asked about the missing money in the cash register, he told me a mendacious and brazen lie.
  7. How many foreign visitors, cheated by scammers, have been surprised that such obvious swindling could be conducted in such brazen and open fashion?
  8. Although Jenny knew she had not finished her assignment, she made a brazen attempt to fool her teacher

 

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WOTW #7: plenary

A plenary session or plenum is a session of a conference which all members of all parties are to attend. Such a session may include a broad range of content, from keynotes to panel discussions, and is not necessarily related to a specific style of presentation or deliberative process.  Continue reading

WOTW #4: mendacious

Mendacious is an adjective which describes a noun. Its synomyms include:

deceitful;  deceptive;  erroneous;  false;  fake;  fraudulent;  insincere;  untrue;  wrong

Here are more examples of use:

  1. Mendacious people always hide the truth.

2. He is always straightforward and honest; He could not be mendacious even if he wanted to.

3. Mendacious news is an attempt to discriminate against people.

4. To achieve those lofty goals, their methods were often mendacious.

 

 

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