adv. [f. BRAZEN a. + -LY2.] In a brazen, impudent manner.
1714. Mandeville, Fab. Bees (1728), 12. All the Rogues cry’d brazenly Good Gods, had we but Honesty!
1840. Carlyle, Heroes, vi. 313. That the … Christian Church … brazenly went about pretending to pardon men’s sins for metallic coined money.
1880. ‘E. Kirke,’ Garfield, 56/1. They stole from one another, and so boldly and brazenly, that the wonder is how even ‘the cohesive power of public plunder’ could have held them so long together.
