Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Barefaced; blatant; brazen: Describes an action, behavior, or statement that is shockingly obvious, done without any attempt to hide its audacity, offensiveness, or dishonesty. It implies a shameless and often aggressive disregard for norms, rules, or decency.
   • Truculent; crude: In some contexts, it can describe something that is aggressively harsh, crude, or brutally direct.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Hành vi cướp giật giữa ban ngày thật trắng trợn. (The act of snatching in broad daylight is truly brazen.)
  • Đó là một lời nói dối trắng trợn. (That is a barefaced lie.)
  • Lời đùa trắng trợn của anh ta khiến mọi người khó chịu. (His crude joke made everyone uncomfortable.)

Advanced Usage

• The word is often used to intensify the nature of a negative action, emphasizing its shameless visibility. It frequently collocates with words denoting crimes, lies, accusations, or violations.
  • sự vu cáo trắng trợn (a blatant slander)
  • hành động trắng trợn (a brazen action)

Variants and Related Words

• Trơ trẽn (adj): Also means shameless or brazen, but often with a connotation of being unabashed or impudent in a more personal, cheeky way. can imply a more aggressive,公然 (gōngrán) violation.

Synonyms

• Blatant: Completely obvious, in a way that is offensive or shocking.
• Brazen: Bold and without shame.
• Barefaced: Shameless and undisguised.
• Flagrant: (Of an action) shockingly noticeable or evident; obviously offensive.

Related Idioms

• While itself is not typically part of a longer idiom, its meaning is central to describing actions in common phrases.
  • Cướp ngày (to rob in daylight): This concept is inherently trắng trợn.

adv

1. obviously