boldface

bold-faced liar

One who tells blatantly obvious and/or impudent untruths easily and with little or no attempt to disguise the lie. Everyone knows he is just a bold-faced liar. It's a wonder anyone believes a thing he says anymore.
See also: liar

bold-faced lie

A blatantly obvious and/or impudent untruth, one in which the liar does not attempt to disguise their mendacity. Sir, I have never done these things of which you accuse me; they are bold-faced lies, and nothing more.
See also: lie
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • bold-faced liar
  • baldfaced
  • bald-faced liar
  • barefaced
  • barefaced liar
  • bald-faced lie
  • bold-faced lie
  • barefaced lie/liar
  • barefaced lie
  • have the nerve to do something
References in periodicals archive
PEPPER-UPPER (5) This boldface word is given at the main entry pep in the OED.
Under this expansion, Boldface will display its newly launching products on power-wing units, strategically placed in the beauty areas at CVS/pharmacy stores as of March 2013.
In response, Boldface petitioned a California federal court to get a judgement that the name Kroma "consists solely of a descriptive term and lacks any inherent distinctive meaning to the relevant consuming public and therefore is conceptually weak."
The boldface procedures are the easy part because we study them and know them cold.
We feel there are two important points related to flying safely which are indirectly related to Boldface procedures.
** Run that sentence--beginning with "But--" and containing three bulleted items and our own inhouse style of italic boldface for publications, plus the idiosyncratic paragraphing--by any stylebook and see what you come up with.
Liberally sprinkled with helpful charts and key points set in boldface, Cracking the Value Code underscores its arguments with a series of well-chosen examples involving companies like IBM, Charles Schwab, Starbucks, Idealab, Pfizer and Procter & Gamble.
Use boldface type and color so that pertinent figures aren't lost among the many numbers the Securities and Exchange Commission requires.
* With more than 400,000 boldface entry forms, Encarta offers thousands of new words, e.g., digerati, Generation Y, gonk, plus "Quick Definitions": These appear where a word has multiple senses and offer an overview of a word's meaning in six or fewer words printed in bold small caps.
Furthermore, all of the additions and variants are indicated in textual notes at the end of each volume, with emendations from the copy text highlighted in boldface. It is now possible to see at a glance, by consulting the textual notes, what material Burton added and when.
For example, given a set of characters and applying some basic rules, a computer can automatically generate all the different variations of a typeface -- from italic to boldface -- needed for any printing application.
When Boldface Group teamed with Kourtney, Kim and Khloe Khardashian to create KHROMA BEAUTY by Kourtney, Kim and Khloe the mission at hand was very clear.
BOLDFACE Group Inc (OTCBB:BLBK), a celebrity beauty licensing company, on Tuesday announced a new partnership with Global Beauty Linx for distribution of the KHROMA BEAUTY brand in all EU territories.
Boldface Licensing + Branding has forged a licensing deal for Khroma Beauty by Kourtney, Kim and Khloe Kardashian.
This loss of brakes came as a surprise, but solid boldface knowledge and execution helped this pilot and crew bring a national treasure to a safe stop.