Sentence examples for barefaced corruption from inspiring English sources

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Rewriting a Charles Randolph script already commissioned by Brad Pitt's company, Plan B (Pitt has a cameo as the film's quasi-counterculture conscience), McKay turns Lewis's dense source into a blackly catastrophic comedy, a story of greed, venality, incompetence and barefaced corruption in which the good guys are the renegades who see disaster coming and stake their shirts on the apocalypse.

Mix in a dash of illiteracy (the New York Times puts it at 44percentt), some classic poverty, and more barefaced corruption than if Boss Tweed and Henry Kissinger co-ruled the universe, and it's a wonder that all of Pakistan isn't already a smoking crater.

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I heard barefaced liar.

Or only that it is uniquely barefaced?

Going barefaced to make a statement sends the wrong message.

It's a steal: bargain hunting or barefaced robbery?

MARION COTILLARD was barefaced and sleepy eyed.

That sale was a scandalous piece of barefaced robbery.

"The word is effronte, and it means barefaced or shameless".

Mr. Wagner called Mr. Schlingensief's comments "barefaced cheek".

For Trump, though, nothing has been so effective as fabrication and barefaced lying.

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