bold-faced lie
Shameless obvious untruth
A bold-faced lie is a blatant, shameless falsehood delivered without attempt at concealment: She told a bold-faced lie about where she'd been.
The liar shows no embarrassment or hesitation—the lie is right there on their face for anyone to see.
Also appears as bald-faced lie, with the same meaning.
- blatantOffensively conspicuous
- shamelessLacking moral embarrassment
- brazenShamelessly bold
- outrightComplete and unqualified
- flagrantShockingly conspicuous and wrong
through his teeth · deceit · falsehood · whopper · tall tale · fabrication · deception · audacious · unabashed · transparent · obvious · denial · cover-up · dishonest · fraud · pretense · gall · nerve
- deceptionlie, lies, lying, fake, fraud
- word errorseggcorn, malapropism, could of, would of, for all intensive purposes
bold-faced lietruth
Accordance with reality
honest truth · gospel truth · absolute truth · fact · the whole truth
bold-faced liewhite lie
Harmless minor falsehood
fib · little white lie · half-truth · polite fiction · exaggeration
bold, boldly, boldness, bolder, boldest, face, faced, facing, faces