Bold (in a bad sense), without shame.
“What a brazen-faced varlet art thou!”
Shakespeare: King Lear, ii. 2.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.