shamelessness
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
shamelessness (countable and uncountable, plural shamelessnesses)
- (uncountable) The state or characteristic of being shameless.
- 1853, Charles Kingsley, chapter 7, in Hypatia:
- [H]e added to all his other shamelessness this, that he offered the patriarch a large sum of money to buy a bishopric of him.
- 1914, Joseph Conrad, chapter 1, in The Arrow of Gold:
- "For instance as to her shamelessness. She was always ready to run half naked about the hills. . . ."
- 1919, Mary Roberts Rinehart, chapter 50, in Dangerous Days:
- She was quite honest with herself; she knew that she was watching for Clay, and she had a magnificent shamelessness in her quest.
- (countable, rare) An utterance or action which is shameless.
- 1872 May 18, “The Womens Rights' Convention in New York”, in The Spectator, volume 45, page 624:
- Shoals of letters are published every week from all parts of the Union telling stories of the unhappiness produced by marriage, sometimes mere bursts of ill-temper, often cynical shamelessnesses, occasionally stories of deep pathos.
- 1963, James Joyce, David Hayman, A First-Draft Version of Finnegans Wake, published 2002, →ISBN, page 109:
- He was able to write in the gloom of his bottle only because of his
noseglownose's glow as it slid over the paper and while he scribbled & scratched nameless shamelessnesses aboutetherseverybody ever he met. . . .
Synonyms[edit]
- (state or characteristic of being shameless): immodesty, unself-consciousness
Translations[edit]
The state or characteristic of being without shame
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