Hypertext Webster Gateway: "shameless"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Shameless \Shame"less\, a. [AS. scamle['a]s.]
1. 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.
--Shak.
2. Indicating want of modesty, or sensibility to disgrace;
indecent; as, a shameless picture or poem.
Syn: Impudent; unblushing; audacious; immodest; indecent;
indelicate. -- {Shame"less*ly}, adv. --
{Shame"less*ness}, n.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
shameless
adj : feeling no shame; "a shameless imposter"; "an unblushing
apologist for fascism" [syn: {unblushing}]
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