SHAMELESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shameless mean? 

• SHAMELESS (adjective)
  The adjective SHAMELESS has 1 sense:

1. feeling no shame

  Familiarity information: SHAMELESS used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHAMELESS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Feeling no shame

Synonyms:

shameless; unblushing

Context example:

an unblushing apologist for fascism

Similar:

unashamed (used of persons or their behavior; feeling no shame)

Derivation:

shamelessness (behavior marked by a bold defiance of the proprieties and lack of shame)

 Context examples 

“Thou wicked and shameless man!” cried the clerk.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He paid her only the compliment of attention; and she felt a respect for him on the occasion, which the others had reasonably forfeited by their shameless want of taste.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

But his pride, his abominable pride—his shameless avowal of what he had done with respect to Jane—his unpardonable assurance in acknowledging, though he could not justify it, and the unfeeling manner in which he had mentioned Mr. Wickham, his cruelty towards whom he had not attempted to deny, soon overcame the pity which the consideration of his attachment had for a moment excited.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)