barefaced lie
Brazen untruth told
A barefaced lie is a brazen, shameless falsehood—one told without any attempt to disguise or soften it.
The liar makes no effort to seem truthful: He told a barefaced lie about where he'd been all night.
The term suggests audacity; the lie is so obvious that telling it requires nerve.
Shamelessly bold
- shamelessLacking moral embarrassment
- boldCourageous and daring
- impudentDisrespectfully bold
- unabashedFeeling no shame
flagrant · outrageous · defiant · unapologetic · blatant · insolent · effrontery · gall
Deliberately untrue statement
- falsehoodDeliberate untrue statement
- untruthA false statement
- fibTrivial, harmless falsehood
- whopperOutsized thing or untruth
misrepresentation · prevarication · deceit · dishonesty · duplicity · disingenuous · misleading · falsification
Allowing light through
- obviousEasily perceived, unmistakable
- blatantOffensively conspicuous
- glaringHarshly conspicuous or bright
- undeniableImpossible to contradict
overt · conspicuous · patent · manifest · unmistakable · unconcealed · evident · plain
brazen
Shamelessly bold
unabashed · flagrant · outrageous · defiant · unapologetic · blatant · insolent · effrontery · gall · nerve
fabrication
Deliberately untrue statement
whopper · misrepresentation · prevarication · deceit · dishonesty · duplicity · disingenuous · misleading · falsification · distortion
transparent
Allowing light through
- obviousEasily perceived, unmistakable
- blatantOffensively conspicuous
- glaringHarshly conspicuous or bright
undeniable · overt · conspicuous · patent · manifest · unmistakable · unconcealed · evident · plain · apparent
barefaced lietruth
Accordance with reality
honest truth · gospel truth · fact · confession · unvarnished truth
barefaced liewhite lie
Harmless minor falsehood
fib · half-truth · little white lie · polite fiction · stretching the truth
bare, faced, bared, baring, bares, bareness, barely, barefoot, bareheaded