brazen vs simpering

brazen

adj
  • Shamelessly shocking and offensive; audacious; impudent; barefaced; immodest, unblushing. 

  • Sounding harsh and loud, like brass cymbals or brass instruments. 

verb
  • Generally followed by out or through: to carry through in a brazen manner; to act boldly despite embarrassment, risk, etc. 

  • To turn a brass color. 

simpering

adj
  • Affected, smug, and supercilious. 

noun
  • The act of one who simpers. 

How often have the words brazen and simpering occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )