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as in unabashed
not embarrassed or ashamed
she's truly shameless in the seemingly endless self-promotion of herself
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as in ruthless
not sorry for having done wrong
a shameless exploiter of impoverished workers in overseas sweatshops
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Recent Examples of shameless
There’s a certain hopefulness to those films that became harder to watch as, in the real world, their targets only grew more powerful and shameless.
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Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 12 Dec. 2025
Institutional politicians have largely reacted with fear and insecurity, creating a leadership vacuum that has led to a sense that politics is a practice that gives a natural advantage to the most shameless actors.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 6 Nov. 2025
Katherine Clark acknowledged on Fox that the Democrats’ shameless ploy would cause hardships for some Americans.
—Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 25 Oct. 2025
The father, Fyodor Karamazov, is a grasping, lecherous, deceitful, and shameless widower.
—Karl Ove Knausgaard, New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2025
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Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 12 Dec. 2025
Institutional politicians have largely reacted with fear and insecurity, creating a leadership vacuum that has led to a sense that politics is a practice that gives a natural advantage to the most shameless actors.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 6 Nov. 2025
Katherine Clark acknowledged on Fox that the Democrats’ shameless ploy would cause hardships for some Americans.
—Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 25 Oct. 2025
The father, Fyodor Karamazov, is a grasping, lecherous, deceitful, and shameless widower.
—Karl Ove Knausgaard, New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shameless
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Like most conservative economists at the time, Hassett was a staunch deficit hawk, an advocate of higher levels of immigration, and, above all else, an unabashed free trader.—
Rogé Karma,
The Atlantic,
7 Jan. 2026
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Some part of Baudelaire’s lifelong free-spending and indolence seems to be a direct rebellion against the man, if not outright Freudian jealousy—Charles was an unabashed mama’s boy.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
22 Dec. 2025
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But he's drawn into a deadly Colombian drama involving a new ruthless arms dealer posing as a humanitarian, Teddy Dos Santos (Diego Calva), and Roxana (Camila Morrone), an American businesswoman.—
Bryan Alexander,
USA Today,
11 Jan. 2026
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As Iranians know well from 1979, ruthless contests tend to define revolutions.—
Karim Sadjadpour,
The Atlantic,
10 Jan. 2026
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South Florida sports history is proud to have been the host for Crump’s barrier-busting history.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
8 Jan. 2026
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The Big Ten is marching into the heart of Southern football with a proud swagger, daring any conference to challenge its claim as the power to beat in the College Football Playoff.—
Charles Odum,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Jan. 2026
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The forest had taught him that city dwellers could often be regulated by cruel and rather unpredictable codes.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
12 Jan. 2026
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That Maduro is a cruel dictator is clear; that Trump intends more than just his arrest (such as taking their oil) is equally clear.—
Reader Commentary,
Baltimore Sun,
9 Jan. 2026
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This was an unashamed 5-4-1 in three clear banks for long periods of the match, gritty, sniffing out second balls and home errors, clearances, blocks, recoveries, choosing when to press and when to sit.—
Beren Cross,
New York Times,
2 Jan. 2026
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October 7 Derailed Abraham Accords Kraft, like many Americans, is an unashamed supporter of Israel.—
Armando Salguero OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
7 Nov. 2025
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Five years later, Smith is in danger of being outpaced by a class of pastors and professional Christians who wear their conservatism less awkwardly and are unrepentant, primed for culture war.—
Sam Kestenbaum,
Vulture,
2 Jan. 2026
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The gleeful, unrepentant suspension of civil liberties by the state would soon become the norm in 21st century America.—
Vikram Murthi,
IndieWire,
5 Dec. 2025
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His light, slurring, hornlike, Al Green-ish singing now melted into the rest of his watery compositions, making the lyrics hard to hear but his great reservoir of unembarrassed feeling impossible to miss.—
Vinson Cunningham,
New Yorker,
25 Dec. 2025
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The through line in all this is an austere aesthetic of unembarrassed domination that is also somehow insecure in its flashiness.—
James Folta,
Literary Hub,
10 Dec. 2025
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“Shameless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shameless. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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