shamelessness

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shamelessness

noun shamelessnesses

  1. uncountable The state or characteristic of being shameless. [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.

    Similar: immodesty, unself-consciousness

  2. countable, rare An utterance or action which is shameless. 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, but all intended as denunciations of the existing scheme of morals,

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noun The state or characteristic of being without shame

Españolsinvergonzonería, desvergüenza, desfachatez
한국어파렴치 paryeomchi, 몰염치 moryeomchi
日本語厚顔無恥 kōganmuchi
हिन्दीनिर्लज्जता nirlajjatā
Portuguêsimpudor, despudor
Françaissans-gêne, effronterie, impudicité
DeutschSchamlosigkeit
Italianospudoratezza, inverecondia
Ελληνικάαδιαντροπιά adiantropiá
Русскийбессты́дство besstýdstvo

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@misc{shamelessness_2026,
  title = {shamelessness},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/shamelessness},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}