brazen\ it\ out

brazen\ it\ out
v. phr.
To pretend you did nothing wrong; be suspected, accused, or scolded without admitting you did wrong; act as if not guilty.

The teacher found a stolen pen that the girl had in her desk, but the girl brazened it out; she said someone else must have put it there.


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