Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Feeling no shame; impervious to disgrace.
- adj. Marked by a lack of shame: a shameless lie.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having no shame; lacking in modesty; immodest; impudent; audacious; insensible to disgrace.
- Done without shame; indicating or characterized by lack of shame; as, a shameless disregard of honesty.
- Synonyms Unblushing, brazen; profligate, reprobate, abandoned, incorrigible.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Destitute of shame; wanting modesty; brazen-faced; insensible to disgrace.
- adj. Indicating want of modesty, or sensibility to disgrace; indecent.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. feeling no shame
Etymologies
- shame + -less (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe on Monday slammed what he called shameless and relentless efforts by his opponents to undermine the country's economy, as he handed out agricultural equipment to new farmers.”
“Until then, the ombudsman has made it clear he intends to make life difficult for the government by exposing what he calls the shameless treatment of Canada's veterans and urging”
“I think "shameless" is exactly the English word to describe the Clintons, especially Bill.”
Pro-Obama Union's Spanish Radio Ad In Nevada: "Hillary Clinton Is Shameless"
“Before the missionaries appeared they were a bunch of free love hottentots running around in shameless nudity, practicing cannibalism and who knows what else.”
“Before the missionaries appeared they were a bunch of free love hottentots running around in shameless nudity, practicing cannibalism canibalism? methinks ye are an idiot and a liar on all counts. missionaried caused many problems around the world and still do to this day.”
“Or, again – shameless charity plug – check out the muscular dystrophy links that I included in my last post.”
“Gordon Brown, liar and British Prime Minister, is not the only one to engage in shameless and bare-faced mendacity when it comes to the EU Constitution.”
“And in shameless self-promotion news, hey look everyone!”
“Do my Jewish readers wonder that the doors of summer hotels, where our parvenus sprawl in shameless familiarity, are closed to them and their people?”
“Still, even the lowest cost estimates of this architectural masterpiece (sure to be exceeded in shameless 'Big Dig' style) will be enough to wake up enough taxpaying Seattle residents that an assenting vote to the egomanic concept is far from a sure thing.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘shameless’.
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-more or -less
Words ending with *more or *less, more or less. Many of theses terms also appear on the list The -less Said, which see.
schemaless, unless, useless, guileless, wireless, regardless, homeless, endless, nevertheless, countless, jobless, doubtless and 434 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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The -less Said...
hopeless, bootless, groundless, luckless, artless, feckless, hapless, joyless, useless, penniless, childless, peerless and 310 more...
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just words.
coquette, solecism, peripherally, recrudescence, viscid, turpitude, sententious, light-heeled, interminably, unflappable, palpably, solicitous and 215 more...
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KaeZoo's Words
flingers, unhinged, driven, flanked, arboreal, venerable, endearing, iconoclastic, fletcher, competent, fireproof, cavernous and 215 more...
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Sassypants
The qualities of The Diva. Social skills, playful yet bitchy.
churlish, bitchy, cantankerous, peevish, disagreeable, quarrelsome, venomous, grumpy, groachy, crabby, dismal, snappish and 143 more...
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The Wørd
Trademark of Stephen Colbert and The Colbert Report.
truthiness, bacchanalia, disappointed, love handles, pussy, overrated, perspective, quitter, alito, camilla-mania, cat, shhhh!... and 335 more...
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fliti's Words
panache, mushaboom, aubergine, serpentine, glimpse, schadenfreude, syzygy, plethora, zeitgeist, defenestrate, callipygian, ubiquitous and 239 more...
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_mark's list
Words I like!
( personal list, favorite words, randomness )psy, nanobot, success, smack, vibration, microcosmic, springgraph, marksmanship, estranged, homoerotic, flex, fiasco and 1695 more...
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Venganza's Words: Love Me, Love My Vo...
odalisque, defenestrate, ubiquitous, quaint, shameless, satchel, flourish, cumbersome, symbology, breadth, dissemination, phenomena and 56 more...
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the nerve!
nerve, gall, chutzpah, brassy, cheek, shameless, brazen, moxie, insolence, spunk, balls, impertinence and 30 more...
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screen background
where the heart is, strictly confiden..., dead clever, housewife 49, mansfield park, the royal, the royal today, unforgiven, red riding, crusoe, wuthering heights, lost in austen and 13 more...
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