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[ sheym-lis ] / ˈʃeɪm lɪs / SEE SYNONYMS FOR shameless ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectivelacking any sense of shame: immodest; audacious. insensible to disgrace. showing no shame. Origin of shamelessbefore 900; Middle English; Old English sceamlēas.See shame, -less SYNONYMS FOR shameless1 brazen, indecent, impudent, bold, unabashed, unashamed. 2 hardened, unprincipled, corrupt. SEE SYNONYMS FOR shameless ON THESAURUS.COM ANTONYMS FOR shamelessSEE ANTONYMS FOR shameless ON THESAURUS.COM OTHER WORDS FROM shamelessshame·less·ly, adverbshame·less·ness, nounWORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH shamelessshameless , shamefulWords nearby shamelessshambolic, shame, shamefaced, shamefast, shameful, shameless, shame on you, shames, shamina, Shamir, shamisen Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for shamelessWe might have thought The Comeback was about a desperate actress's shameless struggle for fame. ‘The Comeback’ Finale: Give Lisa Kudrow All of the Awards|Kevin Fallon|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST Full disclosure: I co-produce the Festival so, yes, that was a shameless plug. Middle East Goes Monty Python on ISIS|Dean Obeidallah|October 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST The U.K. tabloids, as is their wont, have branded her “shameless,” “sordid,” and “the scourge of society.” The X Factor of Sex Invades Britain: Rebecca More’s ‘Sex Tour’ Enrages UK Politicians|Marlow Stern|October 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST About all our books have in common is our shameless use of Shakespeare as a source. Book Bag: 5 Novels Shakespeare Sort of Wrote|Lois Leveen|October 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Before I understood the political elements, I loved it for the colorful, shameless theatricality. Why We're Obsessed With George Takei|Jennifer M. Kroot|August 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST By this shameless woman various proposals were now made for bringing about a personal interview between herself and Elizabeth. Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth|Lucy Aikin There are a thousand legends and fables about the waste, the shameless theft, and so on. Letters of Anton Chekhov|Anton Chekhov During his absence, his shameless traducers redoubled their efforts to secure his ruin. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 71, No. 436, February 1852|Various Then a shameless exhibition of Venus followed, and Philammon could bear no more. The World's Greatest Books, Volume V.|Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton, Eds. Berkeley was shameless in corrupting the representatives of the people by handing out jobs. Give Me Liberty|Thomas J. Wertenbaker
British Dictionary definitions for shameless
adjectivehaving no sense of shame; brazen done without shame; without decency or modesty Derived forms of shamelessshamelessly, adverbshamelessness, nounCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to shamelessbrash, wanton, improper, bold, rude, audacious, flagrant, brazen, outrageous, high-handed, unabashed, immoral, unprincipled, abandoned, arrant, barefaced, brassy, cheeky, depraved, dissolute |