boldfaced
adjEtymology From bold + faced.
1
Media, Publishing, Typography Of text emphasized by being set in a font having thicker strokes, yielding a heavier or darker appearance.
2
Broadly Important, prominent.
- boldface(d) names
3
Figuratively Eggcorn of bald-faced; impudent, brazen.
- He had the bold-faced effrontery to ask for a raise.
- During a visit to Britain, the US president contradicted Benjamin Netanyahu after the Israeli prime minister claimed it was a “bold-faced lie” to say Israel was causing hunger in Gaza.2025 July 28, Eleni Courea, Libby Brooks, quoting Benjamin Netanyahu, “Trump acknowledges ‘real starvation’ in Gaza and tells Israel to let in ‘every ounce of food’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
- Derived terms
- non-boldfaced, nonboldfaced