Shameless
['ʃeɪmlɪs] or ['ʃemləs]
Definition
(adj.) feeling no shame; 'a shameless imposter'; 'an unblushing apologist for fascism' .
Editor: Peter--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Destitute of shame; wanting modesty; brazen-faced; insensible to disgrace.
(a.) Indicating want of modesty, or sensibility to disgrace; indecent; as, a shameless picture or poem.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Impudent, unblushing, unabashed, immodest, frontless, assuming, brazen, brazen-faced, bold-faced, blustering, swaggering, vaporing, bluff, insolent, audacious, cool.[2]. Depraved, vicious, sinful, unprincipled, corrupt, profligate, dissolute, reprobate, abandoned, graceless, obdurate, hardened, incorrigible, irreclaimable, lost, lost to shame, dead to honor.
Editor: Nettie
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Vicious, sinful, immodest, indelicate, unblushing, brazen, audacious,bold-faced, impudent, cool,[See BECOMING]
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Examples
- The public and shameless sale of beautiful mulatto and quadroon girls has acquired a notoriety, from the incidents following the capture of the Pearl. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- They turned off the main road, past a black patch of common-garden, where sooty cabbage stumps stood shameless. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- In a shameless disregard of magnanimity, he resembled the great Emperor. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- He was even a little hit shameless. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The Watsons, who were very sick too, and on whom the stewardess attended with shameless partiality, were stoics compared with her. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Thou art shameless, he said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
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