shameless

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: shame=less
• COUNT in NET: 2 in 2 verses (in OT : 1 in 1 verses) (in NT : 1 in 1 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

shameless, a. [AS. scamleás.].

•  Destitute of shame; wanting modesty; brazen-faced; insensible to disgrace.  Pope.  [1913 Webster]

  "Shame enough to shame thee, wert thou not shameless."  [1913 Webster]
•  Indicating want of modesty, or sensibility to disgrace; indecent; as, a shameless picture or poem.  [1913 Webster]

Syn. -- Impudent; unblushing; audacious; immodest; indecent; indelicate.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

shameless, adj.
1 having or showing no sense of shame.
2 impudent.

Derivative

shamelessly adv. shamelessness n.

Etymology

OE sc(e)amleas (as SHAME, -LESS)

THESAURUS

shameless

abandoned, aberrant, abnormal, abominable, amoral, arrant, atrocious, audacious, aweless, barefaced, blatant, bold, bold as brass, boldfaced, brash, brassy, brazen, brazenfaced, callous, calloused, case-hardened, cheeky, colorful, conscienceless, corrupt, corrupted, criminal, crooked, crude, dark, delinquent, deviant, devious, disgraceful, dishonest, dishonorable, dissolute, doubtful, dubious, evasive, evil, exhibitionistic, extravagant, felonious, fishy, flagrant, flaring, flaunting, forward, fraudulent, garish, gaudy, glaring, gorgeous, griefless, hard, hardened, hardhearted, hardly the thing, heartless, high-handed, ignominious, ill-got, ill-gotten, illegal, immodest, immoral, improper, impudent, inappropriate, incorrect, indecent, indecorous, indirect, indurated, infamous, insidious, inured, lewd, lost to shame, loud, lurid, meretricious, not done, not kosher, not the thing, notorious, obdurate, obtrusive, off-base, off-color, out-of-line, outrageous, overbold, presumptuous, profligate, questionable, regretless, remorseless, rotten, rude, sacrilegious, scandalous, screaming, seared, sensational, shady, shameful, shifty, shocking, sinful, sinister, slippery, sorrowless, spectacular, suspicious, swaggering, tawdry, terrible, tricky, unabashed, unashamed, unblushing, unconscienced, unconscientious, unconscionable, uncontrolled, underhand, underhanded, undue, unembarrassed, unethical, unfit, unfitting, ungrieving, unlawful, unmodest, unprincipled, unregretful, unregretting, unremorseful, unrepining, unreserved, unrighteous, unrueful, unsavory, unscrupulous, unseemly, unsorrowful, unsorrowing, unsorry, unstraightforward, unsuitable, vulgar, wanton, wicked, wild, without remorse, without shame, wrong, wrongful

ROGET THESAURUS

shameless

Impurity

N impurity, uncleanness, immodesty, grossness, indelicacy, indecency, impudicity, obscenity, ribaldry, Fescennine, smut, bawdry, double entente, equivoque, concupiscence, lust, carnality, flesh, salacity, pruriency, lechery, lasciviency, lubricity, Sadism, sapphism, incontinence, intrigue, faux pas, amour, amourette, gallantry, debauchery, libertinish, libertinage, fornication, liaison, wenching, venery, dissipation, seduction, defloration, defilement, abuse, violation, rape, incest, prostitution, social evil, harlotry, stupration, whoredom, concubinage, cuckoldom, adultery, advoutry, crim, con, free love, seraglio, harem, brothel, bagnio, stew, bawdyhouse, cat house, lupanar, house of ill fame, bordel, bordello, impure, unclean, not to be mentioned to ears polite, immodest, shameless, indecorous, indelicate, indecent, Fescennine, loose, risque, coarse, gross, broad, free, equivocal, smutty, fulsome, ribald, obscene, bawdy, pornographic, concupiscent, prurient, lickerish, rampant, lustful, carnal, carnal-minded, lewd, lascivious, lecherous, libidinous, erotic, ruttish, salacious, Paphian, voluptuous, goatish, must, musty, unchaste, light, wanton, licentious, debauched, dissolute, of loose character, of easy virtue, frail, gay, riggish, incontinent, meretricious, rakish, gallant, dissipated, no better than she should be, on the town, on the streets, on the pave, on the loose, adulterous, incestuous, bestial.

Insolence

N insolence, haughtiness, arrogance, airs, overbearance, domineering, tyranny, impertinence, sauciness, flippancy, dicacity, petulance, procacity, bluster, swagger, swaggering, bounce, terrorism, assumption, presumption, beggar on horseback, usurpation, impudence, assurance, audacity, hardihood, front, face, brass, shamelessness, effrontery, hardened front, face of brass, assumption of infallibility, saucebox, insolent, haughty, arrogant, imperious, magisterial, dictatorial, arbitrary, high-handed, high and mighty, contumelious, supercilious, overbearing, intolerant, domineering, overweening, high-flown, flippant, pert, fresh, cavalier, saucy, forward, impertinent, malapert, precocious, assuming, would-be, bumptious, bluff, brazen, shameless, aweless, unblushlng, unabashed, brazen, boldfaced-, barefaced-, brazen-faced, dead to shame, lost to shame, impudent, audacious, presumptuous, free and easy, devil-may-care, rollicking, jaunty, janty, roistering, blustering, hectoring, swaggering, vaporing, thrasonic, fire eating, full of sound and fury, with a high hand, ex cathedra, one's bark being worse than his bite, beggars mounted run their horse to death, quid times? Caesarem vehis, wagahai wa (expressing superiority).

Vice

N vice, evil-doing, evil courses, wrongdoing, wickedness, viciousness, iniquity, peccability, demerit, sin, Adam, old Adam, offending Adam, immorality, impropriety, indecorum, scandal, laxity, looseness of morals, enphagy, dophagy, exophagy, want of principle, want of ballast, obliquity, backsliding, infamy, demoralization, pravity, depravity, pollution, hardness of heart, brutality, corruption, knavery, profligacy, flagrancy, atrocity, cannibalism, lesbianism, Sadism, infirmity, weakness, weakness of the flesh, frailty, imperfection, error, weak side, foible, failing, failure, crying sin, besetting sin, defect, deficiency, cloven foot, lowest dregs of vice, sink of iniquity, Alsatian den, gusto picaresco, fault, crime, criminality, sinner, brothel, gambling house, joint, opium den, shooting gallery, crack house, vicious, sinful, sinning, wicked, iniquitous, immoral, unrighteous, wrong, criminal, naughty, incorrect, unduteous, undutiful, unprincipled, lawless, disorderly, contra bonos mores, indecorous, unseemly, improper, dissolute, profligate, scampish, unworthy, worthless, desertless, disgraceful, recreant, reprehensible, blameworthy, uncommendable, discreditable, disreputable, Sadistic, base, sinister, scurvy, foul, gross, vile, black, grave, facinorous, felonious, nefarious, shameful, scandalous, infamous, villainous, of a deep dye, heinous, flagrant, flagitious, atrocious, incarnate, accursed, Mephistophelian, satanic, diabolic, hellish, infernal, stygian, fiendlike, hell-born, demoniacal, devilish, fiendish, miscreated, misbegotten, demoralized, corrupt, depraved, evil-minded, evil-disposed, ill-conditioned, malevolent, heartless, graceless, shameless, virtueless, abandoned, lost to virtue, unconscionable, sunk in iniquity, lost in iniquity, steeped in iniquity, incorrigible, irreclaimable, obdurate, reprobate, past praying for, culpable, reprehensible, unjustifiable, indefensible, inexcusable, inexpiable, unpardonable, irremissible, weak, frail, lax, infirm, imperfect, indiscrete, demoralizing, degrading, wrong, sinfully, without excuse, Int, O tempora!, O mores!, alitur vitium vivitque tegendo, genus est mortis male vivere, mala mens malus animus, nemo repente fuit turpissimus, the trail of the serpent is over them all, to sanction vice and hunt decorum down.