shameless
pronunciation
How to pronounce shameless in British English:
UK [ˈʃeɪmləs]
How to pronounce shameless in American English:
US [ˈʃeɪmləs]
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- Adjective:
- feeling no shame
Word Origin
- shameless (adj.)
- Old English scamleas "shameless, impudent, immodest;" see shame (n.) + -less. Related: Shamelessly; shamelessness. Similar formation in Old Norse skammlauss, Dutch schaamteloos, Old High German scamalos, German schamlos.
Example
- 1. But what a shameless rewriting of history !
- 2. Is this merely shameless extortion by a trademark " troll " ?
- 3. The shameless admission of the stitch-up , however , should have been a humiliating slap in the face for any self-respecting audience .
- 4. You need to be shameless enough to ask hugely successful people to your party , but you also need to sound alluring enough to get them to turn up .
- 5. But I am an economist and you would expect me not only to have learnt lessons from the market but to take advantage of them for shameless self-promotion .