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单词 shameless
释义 shame·less
\ˈ ̷ ̷lə̇s\ adjective
Etymology: Middle English shameles, from Old English scamlēas, from scamu, sceamu shame + -lēas -less
1. : devoid of shame : insensible to disgrace : unscrupulous
 < fiend and shameless courtesan — Shakespeare >
 < a shameless exploiter of the native workmen >
2. : showing lack of shame on the part of the agent : disgraceful
 < a shameless betrayal of principle — Rebecca West >
 < there was something shameless and indecent about not singing true — Willa Cather >
Synonyms:
 shameless, brazen, barefaced, brash, and impudent, applying in common to persons or acts that defy the accepted moral of social code, mean, in this application, bold or lacking a sense of shame. shameless implies a lack in modesty, decency, respect for others, or so on
  < makes such shameless use of patriotic feelings to advertise his product — Virgil Thomson >
  < a shameless display of arrogance >
  < a shameless and brutal treatment of relatives >
  brazen adds to shameless the idea of hardness and insolence
  < hip movements and more or less brazen imitations of the sexual embrace — Samuel Putnam >
  < solicited praise and power with the brazen, businesslike air of a streetwalker on the prowl for clients — R.H.Rovere >
  barefaced suggests an extreme and brazen effrontery
  < the whole deal was a barefaced double cross — Time >
  < as barefaced a swindle — Arnold Bennett >
  < a barefaced lie >
  brash stresses rather a heedlessness, implying a shamelessness that is largely callowness
  < not like the other girls who were boisterous and brash, liking to walk loudly in their high heels across the drug store's tiled floor — Jean Stafford >
  < an all-too-intimate revue, its bawls out brash ditties, features loud-colored, low-cut skits, winks its eye and wiggles its hips — Time >
  < brash college graduates of recent vintage who claimed to know almost everything — R.F.Scholz >
  impudent, now rare in this sense, implies bold and cocky defiance of modesty or decency
  < conduct so sordidly unladylike that even the most impudent woman would not dare do it openly — G.B.Shaw >
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