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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Feeling no shame; impervious to disgrace.
  • adjective Marked by a lack of shame.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • 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.

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

  • adjective Destitute of shame; wanting modesty; brazen-faced; insensible to disgrace.
  • adjective Indicating want of modesty, or sensibility to disgrace; indecent.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective having no shame; immodest; unable to feel disgrace

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective feeling no shame

Etymologies

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shame +‎ -less

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