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Recent Examples of shameless So, what makes President Trump think that a simple social media post is going to be enough to stop Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s shameless assault on Ukraine? Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 27 Apr. 2025 Samuels said the biggest challenges in the coming years will be to convince advertisers not to pigeonhole the company as a niche buy, especially given the Trump administration’s shameless bullying of corporate America on any activities focused on diversity, civil rights or equity considerations. Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 24 Apr. 2025 Here are some tips for building out your career brand: Be shameless. Roberta Matuson, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025 The hedge funders and other Wall Street vultures who are now, all of a sudden, all about protectionism are especially shameless. John W. Dean, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for shameless
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Adjective
  • That fateful connection would snowball into a lifelong friendship and artistic partnership that thrives on curiosity, trust and unabashed eccentricity.
    Isabela Raygoza, Billboard, 30 Apr. 2025
  • The song, like the album, is an unabashed rebuke of Israel-U.S. relations and America’s overall warmongering.
    Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 29 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Wes Anderson is talking about a surreal moment that occurs early in his latest film, The Phoenician Scheme, in which the protagonist, the ruthless international tycoon Zsa-Zsa Korda (Benicio del Toro), experiences a vision of the afterlife.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 18 May 2025
  • Ralph Fiennes will play the ruthless Panem dictator in director Francis Lawrence‘s forthcoming film in the franchise, The Hollywood Reporter has learned exclusively.
    Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 16 May 2025
Adjective
  • The narrative continues to evolve, due in no small part to proud descendants of Hiram, James and Wallace.
    Jacoba Urist, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2025
  • Jaylon is a proud alumnus of the University of Georgia.
    Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 15 May 2025
Adjective
  • Scheifele’s emotional and inspirational decision to play mere hours after his father’s unexpected death — to play for his dad, to play because of his dad — ended in cruel fashion, with Scheifele helpless in the penalty box.
    Mark Lazerus, New York Times, 18 May 2025
  • At first the program seems to be benign, but Hayakawa’s film steadily reveals how the policy thrives on the cruel capitalist tenet that people are disposable.
    Lovia Gyarkye, HollywoodReporter, 17 May 2025
Adjective
  • And yet Melissa McCarthy’s gut-busting bridesmaid, Megan, went the extra mile down the path of crazy, from her unabashed man-hunting to her unashamed puppy kidnapping.
    Marco della Cava, USA TODAY, 12 Feb. 2025
  • Rickey was unashamed of his brilliance, which meant he couldn’t be dissuaded from proclaiming it.
    Marcus Thompson II, The Athletic, 25 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • This is not an argument for more unrepentant violence and general bloodthirstiness on television, where women are still too often faceless victims in crime/horror dramas.
    Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2025
  • Clips of the media furor that resulted can be seen in the trailer for Dinner Time, and in the actual clip, Wolf remains unrepentant — a point of pride for ride-or-die stand-up comics.
    Frank DiGiacomo, Billboard, 24 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Del Rey’s feathery croon was totally wrong for the song, which calls for an unembarrassed quality that’s not part of her whole deal.
    Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2025
  • Who better, then, to pry Eve loose than a rangy, rakish music journalist (Benjamin Bratt) whose game includes unironic hat-wearing and — like a dispiriting number of men in his age bracket — the unembarrassed deployment of Stephen Stills lyrics?
    Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025

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“Shameless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shameless. Accessed 25 May. 2025.

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