behaviour that is confident and very rude, without any feeling of shame synonym nerve厚颜无耻的行为;傲慢鲁莽的举止 He had the effrontery to accuse me of lying! 他竟敢指责我撒谎!
Word Originlate 17th cent.: from French effronterie, based on late Latin effrons, effront- ‘shameless, barefaced’, from ex- ‘out’ + frons ‘forehead’.