This is why it was quite rightly described as barefaced robbery.
That is not a terminological inexactitude; it is a barefaced untruth.
In this case, the robbery is both daylight and barefaced.
That may be an improvement, because if no such provision is made it would look like barefaced robbery to billet soldiers without payment.
Would not most people regard that as barefaced robbery of the taxpayer?
Yet perhaps their methods are so crude and barefaced that the final result will be the opposite.
He has the barefaced cheek to come here to try to lecture us.
It is barefaced robbery of the shareholders and of the municipalities.