Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Without a blush; unblushing; past blushing; impudent; barefaced; shameless: as, “blushless crimes,”

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Free from blushes; incapable of blushing; shameless; impudent.

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  • adjective Without blushes; unblushing.

Etymologies

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blush +‎ -less

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Examples

  • Look with what a blushless face of triumph she eyes her poor tottering neighbour opposite, who never appears destined "to suffer a recovery."

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 385, August 15, 1829 Various

  • Thus had her first sense of horror been blunted, and blushless become her keen, womanly shame.

    Hubert's Wife A Story for You Minnie Mary Lee

  • There she sat, a sketch-book on a green table beside her and a board in her lap, brazenly painting -- and a more blushless piece of assurance than

    The Guest of Quesnay Booth Tarkington 1907

  • On the other side the blushless captain of dragoons listened, with downcast eyes, to the sentimental compliments of Beaumarchais, and suffered himself, without a smile, to be compared to the Maid of Orleans, 'says the Duc de Broglie.

    Historical Mysteries Andrew Lang 1878

  • Then, ah! then, moreover, will the novelist's Art, now neither blushless infant nor executive man, have attained its majority.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • Then, ah! then, moreover, will the novelist's Art, now neither blushless infant nor executive man, have attained its majority.

    Diana of the Crossways — Volume 1 George Meredith 1868

  • Then, ah! then, moreover, will the novelist's Art, now neither blushless infant nor executive man, have attained its majority.

    Diana of the Crossways — Complete George Meredith 1868

  • When the wife lifts high the blushless front and brazens out her guilt; when the child, with loud voice, throws off all control and makes boast of disobedience, -- man revolts at the audacity; his spirit arms against his wrong: its face, at least, is bare; the blow, if sacrilegious, is direct.

    Lucretia — Volume 02 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • When the wife lifts high the blushless front and brazens out her guilt; when the child, with loud voice, throws off all control and makes boast of disobedience, -- man revolts at the audacity; his spirit arms against his wrong: its face, at least, is bare; the blow, if sacrilegious, is direct.

    Lucretia — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • In some of their letters, therefore, which he received soon after, they expressed their surprise at his not having been more urgent in his application, and again recommended the blushless assiduity of successful merit.

    The Man of Feeling Henry Mackenzie 1788

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