To: Lancey Howard
| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| bold-faced |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |
b ld f st |
| ADJECTIVE: |
1. Impudent; brazen: a bold-faced lie. 2. Printed in thick, heavy type. |
42 posted on
01/25/2003 3:35:54 PM PST by
sarcasm
To: sarcasm
Same Dictionary defines b
ald-faced (so think I'll stick to the way I learned it):
| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| bald-faced |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |
bôldfst |
| ADJECTIVE: |
1. Brash; undisguised: a bald-faced lie. 2. Zoology Having a white face or face markings. |
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58 posted on
01/25/2003 4:07:07 PM PST by
Let's Roll
(Whether we bring our enemies to justice, or bring justice to our enemies, justice will be done.)
To: sarcasm
Gee, and you thought you invented something here... ;)
191 posted on
01/25/2003 6:52:10 PM PST by
smith288
(Axis of Idiocy = France/Germany/Iraq)
To: sarcasm; sam_paine
re: "bold-faced"
Who you gonna believe - - me, or a bunch of stupid dictionaries?
Thanks, folks. I stand corrected!
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