The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shameless \Shame"less\, a. [AS. scamle['a]s.]
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Destitute of shame; wanting modesty; brazen-faced; insensible to disgrace. ``Such shameless bards we have.''
--Pope.Shame enough to shame thee, wert thou not shameless.
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Indicating want of modesty, or sensibility to disgrace; indecent; as, a shameless picture or poem.
Syn: Impudent; unblushing; audacious; immodest; indecent; indelicate. [1913 Webster] -- Shame"less*ly, adv. -- Shame"less*ness, n.
Wiktionary
adv. In a shameless manner; without shame; impudently.
WordNet
adv. without shame; "he unashamedly abandoned the project when he realized he would not gain from it" [syn: unashamedly, barefacedly] [ant: ashamedly]
Usage examples of "shamelessly".
I tell no lie, he was shamelessly burping by the free weights, over and over again.
Well aware of their sacrosanctity, the ibises exploited it shamelessly.
He dreamed of sensual canvases shamelessly ablush with pink flesh, peaches, orchid blooms.
Pam and Wendy boo-hoo shamelessly over the toasts, and even crusty old Hamilton has a lumpy throat while Linus seems concerned about the structural integrity of the meringue cake.
He was stooping over her chair, flattering her shamelessly, and Cressida saw the tired eyes light up in pleasure.
Well aware of their sacrosanctity, the ibises exploited it shamelessly.
Throughout The Snarlrun, while their betters stood silent, aghast, able to keep quill to paper solely by dint of long training and stern regimen, did the canaille gather upon Shelyid's shoulders and cavort shamelessly.
Shamelessly I plot to resurrect my newspaper career by yoking my byline to some famous stiff.
Shamelessly I jot this down, too, knowing it's a word that Cleo uses probably fifty times a day to describe everything from bubble bath to frozen yogurt.
Sarah crowed and settled against the back of the crate, shamelessly reading her find.
It chronicled her cock-tailed devolution from Delaware insecticide heiress elegantly tamping shreds of hard-boiled egg onto crustless toast triangles, loving the attention, then shamelessly hamming it up, becoming a haggard mal vivant gurgling fragments of sea shanties into the pipes beneath the kitchen sink.
Her full ripe breasts, heavy now with growing desire, tingled and her vagina was intolerably smoldering from his lecherous manipulations as she felt him maniacally finger fucking her shamelessly aroused cuntal flesh!
While disserting, he would paw women shamelessly, would never touch a man.
What sets the carbon atom apart is that it is shamelessly promiscuous.
It was clear LaFollet had been briefed on her, because he'd been ready not only to cite chapter and verse from the relevant Grayson law codes but to trade shamelessly on her own sense of duty.