brazenest

Adjective

brazen (comparative more brazen or brazener, superlative most brazen or brazenest)

1. (archaic) Made of brass.
   • Brazen or rather copper swords seem to have been next introduced; these in process of time, workmen learned to harden by the addition of some other metal or mineral, which rendered them almost equal in temper to iron.1786, Francis Grose, Military Antiquities Respecting a History of the English Army, from the Conquest to the Present Time, London: Printed for S. Hooper […], OCLC 745209064; republished as Military...
2. (figuratively) Brass-like in appearance or character; bright, ruddy, hard.
   • The women, stout, strong, brazen-faced creatures, in most cases looked able to thrash any of the partners with whom they consorted.1859 May 2, X. X. X. [pseudonym], “Looking at Lodgings”, in The Ragged School Union Magazine, volume IX, London: Ragged School Union, […]; Partridge & Co., […], →OCLC, page 91
3. Sounding harsh and loud, like brass cymbals or brass instruments.
   • And now the Trumpets terribly from far, / With rattling Clangor, rouze the sleepy War. / The Souldiers Shouts succeed the Brazen Sounds, / And Heav'n, from Pole to Pole, the Noise rebounds.1697, Virgil; John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. Translated into English Verse; […], London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 839376905...
4. (archaic) Extremely strong; impenetrable; resolute.
   • The giant [Goliath] was thus conquered by the youth [David]; the man-at-arms by the unarmed; the stone of the shepherd pierced the brazen defences of the warrior.1870, The Sunday at Home: A Family Magazine for Sabbath Reading, volume XVII, London: Religious Tract Society, →OCLC, page 587
5. Shameless or impudent; shocking or audacious; brash.
   • She was brazen enough to deny stealing the handbag even though she was caught on camera doing so.

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