Crossword clues for shamelessness
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
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The state or characteristic of being shameless. 2 (context countable rare English) An utterance or action which is shameless.
WordNet
n. behavior marked by a bold defiance of the proprieties and lack of shame [syn: brazenness]
Usage examples of "shamelessness".
The impudent creature pushed her shamelessness so far as to offer to try it on her, and she insisted so passionately that I was obliged to push her away.
And it was not many weeks before just that peculiar temptation which does not put itself forth with wanton or charming thoughtlessness, but with good-natured and cold shamelessness debases itself, had discovered me in my defencelessness and made of me an easy prey.
Is it not proved by his love of so many vain and hurtful things, which produces gnawing cares, disquiet, griefs, fears, wild joys, quarrels, lawsuits, wars, treasons, angers, hatreds, deceit, flattery, fraud, theft, robbery, perfidy, pride, ambition, envy, murders, parricides, cruelty, ferocity, wickedness, luxury, insolence, impudence, shamelessness, fornications, adulteries, incests, and the numberless uncleannesses and unnatural acts of both sexes, which it is shameful so much as to mention.
Papencordt's work, and in Rienzi's own words, his claim to be a bastard son of the emperor Henry the Seventh, whose intrigue with his mother Rienzi relates with a sort of proud shamelessness.