brazen
Synonyymisanakirja
brazen
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häpeämätön, hävytön, julkea, häikäilemätön, tyylitön, tökerö, röyhkeä, haastaa, esiintyä muina miehinä.
Käännökset
englanti |
röyhkeä esiintyä muina miehinä
messinkinen, messinginvärinen
puhekieltä Pertaining to, made of, or resembling brass (in color or strength). (quote-journal); Partridge & Co., 34, (w); and all booksellers|date=2 May 1859|volume=IX|page=91|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=LZVBAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA91|oclc=614851442|passage=The women, stout, strong, brazen-faced creatures, in most cases looked able to thrash any of the partners with whom they consorted. (quote-book)|series=(w)|seriesvolume=EBook 29405|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/29405/29405-h/29405-h.htm|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305023953/http://www.gutenberg.org/files/29405/29405-h/29405-h.htm|archivedate=5 March 2016|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=(w)|year=1913|year_published=September 1918, Project Gutenberg version dated 17 May 2012|oclc=3364543|passage=The vegetation was similar to that which covers the lawns of the red Martians of the great waterways, but the trees and birds were unlike anything that I had ever seen upon Mars, and then through the further trees I could see that most un-Martian of all sights—an open sea, its blue waters shimmering beneath the brazen sun. Sounding harsh and loud, like brass cymbal cymbals or brass instruments. 1697, (w); (w), transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His w:Eclogues Pastorals, (w), and w:Aeneid Æneis. Translated into English Verse; by Mr. Dryden. Adornd with a Hundred Sculptures, London: Printed for (w), at the Judges-Head in w:Fleet Street|Fleetstreet, near the w:Inner Temple|Inner-Temple-Gate, (w) http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/839376905 839376905; republished as The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. Translated into English Verse by Mr. Dryden. In Three Volumes'', volume III, 5th edition, London: Printed by Jacob Tonson in the w:Strand, London|Strand, 1721, (w) http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/181805247 181805247, book IX, https://books.google.com/books?id=QzIJAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA822-IA1 page 822, lines 667–670: (quote-book); Cape Town: David Philip Publishers|year=2001|page=246|isbn=978-0-85255-573-6|passage=Often a traveller, when the air is quiet, / Will make the night reverberate with this riot / Of brazen sounds, whose singing cadence swells / The harmony of bleating and lambs' bells. puhekieltä Extremely strong; impenetrable; resolute. (quote-journal)|year=1870|volume=XVII|page=587|oclc=1587811|passage=The giant &91;Goliath&93; was thus conquered by the youth &91;(w)&93;; the man-at-arms by the unarmed; the stone of the shepherd pierced the brazen defences of the warrior. (quote-book)|year=2015|page=19|isbn=978-1-4725-5861-9|passage=In the autumn, when a small group of us heard him &91;(w)&93; read from Heracles, his last work, I was amazed at his brazen energy. For two and a half hours without stopping, without once lowering his voice (and what a strong, brazen voice it was), barely pausing for breath for even a moment between acts, bent motionless over the table, he read – half from memory – those verses wrought in brass, looking deep into the eyes of each of his listeners in turn. shamelessly Shamelessly shocking and offensive; audacious; impudent; barefaced; immodest, unblushing. (defdate)
(quote-book)|year=2012|isbn=978-0-7564-0701-8|passage=If one had to lie at all, the brazen lie was better because brazen lies were so outrageous many people failed to question them. puhekieltä To turnVerb turn a brass color. (quote-journal) the meadows roughen, grow gutteral / with goldenrod, milkweed's late-summer lilac, / cat-tails, the wild lily brazening, / dooryards overflowing in late, rough-headed bloom: (..) puhekieltä Generally followed by (l) or (l): to carry through in a brazen manner; to act boldly despite embarrassment, riskNoun risk, etc. (defdate) (quote-book) (quote-journal), Edinburgh; and w:Thomas Cadell (publisher)|Thomas Cadell, (w)|month=November|year=1832|volume=XXXII|issue=CCI|page=870|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=sCU-AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA870|oclc=1781863|passage=His impudence is only less than his ignorance, in referring his questioner to w:John Milton|John Milton, in proof of the scriptural angels being celestial women. That gentleman mildly remarks, "Milton's angels are not Ladies." Instead of blushing, he brazens it out, and replies, "No—but some scriptural angels are Ladies—I believe"—shewing that he is as ignorant of his Bible as of Milton. 1887, w:William Black (novelist)|William Black, Sabina Zembra: A Novel, London; New York, N.Y.: w:Macmillan Publishers|Macmillan and Co.; Edinburgh: Printed by R. & R. Clark, (w) http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/18513677 18513677; new and rev. edition, London: w:Sampson Low|Sampson Low, Marston, 1893, (w) http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/3780442 3780442, page 118: (quote-book)|year=1949|page=151|oclc=459551315|passage=The historically minded modernist poet is uncertain whether there is any excuse at all for the existence of poets. He brazens out the dilemma by making cruel jokes at his own expense—jokes which he expects no one to see or to laugh at if seen. (quote-book)|year=2007|page=169|isbn=978-0-8032-1094-3|passage=(..) I've come to rely on a mental technique that I call powering through. (..) It's equivalent to brazening out an awkward social situation—accidentally squeezing the butt of a stranger wearing the same costume as your boyfriend at a Halloween party, say. Powering through or brazening out is almost always what I end up doing, but only after stifling my initial impulse to surrender or sink through the floor. (quote-book), (w)|year=2008|isbn=978-1-4165-4137-0|passage=The drivers of the 507s Lost Convoy knew they were in a world of deep fecal matter. Could they brazen a path through the city once more and pick up Route Blue on the other side? Or would this morning's chain of unfortunate events finally catch up with them? |