baldfacedとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

baldfaced (comparative more baldfaced, superlative most baldfaced)

1. Alternative form of bald-faced.
   • 2024 February 16, Mike Howell, “Partnership With ADL Compromises FBI’s Integrity and Fairness”, in The Daily Signal‎:

     For example, the organization has groundlessly denounced Elon Musk, a powerful libertarian voice, as an antisemite in a baldfaced effort to drain his social network, X, of advertising revenue. Yet, when now-Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) came to the defense of his uncle for antisemitic remarks he made in the ’90s, the organization refused to condemn him.

形容詞

bald-faced (comparative more bald-faced, superlative most bald-faced)

1. (of an animal) Having white markings on the face.

   bald-faced hornet

2. (figurative) Shameless and undisguised.

   Synonyms: barefaced, boldfaced

   a bald-faced lie

   • 2021 May 4, Thomas L. Friedman, “Trump’s Big Lie Devoured the G.O.P. and Now Eyes Our Democracy”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, archived from the original on 3 June 2021:

     What kind of deformed party will such a dynamic produce? A party so willing to be marinated in such a baldfaced lie will lie about anything, including who wins the next election and every one after that.

使用する際の注意点

Descriptively, boldfaced is a synonym of the "shameless and undisguised" sense; prescriptively, many speakers deprecate its use in that sense. Writers seeking unassailable style in formal writing therefore avoid that use.