单词 | shameless |
释义 | shame·less 1. < fiend and shameless courtesan — Shakespeare > < a shameless exploiter of the native workmen > 2. < a shameless betrayal of principle — Rebecca West > < there was something shameless and indecent about not singing true — Willa Cather > Synonyms: < 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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