shamelessly

English

Etymology

From shameless +‎ -ly.

Adverb

shamelessly (comparative more shamelessly, superlative most shamelessly)

1. In a shameless manner; without shame; impudently.
   • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 68:

     Bradly served him a handsome allowance, and Podson was at it, even in the process of its being served. He guzzled shamelessly, pushing food into an overstuffed mouth, his eye glazed to all intrusion on a gastric debauch.

   • 2010 April 15, Iain Murray, “Chicagoan Voting System!”, in National Review Online:

     Yesterday, I shamelessly blegged people to vote for my son in a Parents magazine cutest kid contest.

   • 2014 July 10, Stephen Glover, “Sorry, but Gandhi statue in Westminster is a cheap stunt by ministers with scant knowledge of history greasing up to India”, in Daily Mail‎^[1]:

     But I take the view that the statue is a cheap and cynical stunt by ministers with scant knowledge of history, whose only interest lies in greasing up to modern Indian politicians. With little or no dignity, they shamelessly prostrate themselves in the most craven way.

Translations

in a shameless manner

• Catalan: desvergonyidament (ca)
• Czech: nestydatě, drze (cs)
• Esperanto: senhonte
• French: effrontément (fr)
• Georgian: უსირცხვილოდ (usircxvilod), ურცხვად (urcxvad)
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: ἀναιδῶς (anaidôs)

• Hindi: निर्लज्जतापूर्वक (nirlajjatāpūrvak)
• Hungarian: szégyentelenül (hu)
• Latin: impudenter
• Polish: arogancko (pl), bezczelnie (pl), bezwstydnie (pl), impertynencko (pl), zuchwale (pl), bezpruderyjnie (literary, of one's approach to sex)
• Portuguese: desavergonhadamente, impudentemente
• Russian: бесстыдно (ru) (besstydno)
• Serbo-Croatian: drsko (sh)
• Spanish: desvergonzadamente (es)

References

• Noah Webster (1828), “shamelessly”, in An American Dictionary of the English Language: […], volume II (J–Z), New York, N.Y.: […] S. Converse; printed by Hezekiah Howe […], →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “shamelessly”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.