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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
Tropes, sequels, and even shameless copycats gave me a way to compare craft without getting overwhelmed by just how much movies can mean to me personally.
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Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 27 Mar. 2026
The worst, most shameless people in the world already understand this and use that cold logic to their advantage.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2026
Okay, let’s get into the other good, bad, and ugly from episode 2 of Survivor 50, and — shameless plug alert!
—Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Mar. 2026
Like, is Glem’s entire look intentionally paying homage to Franklin Sherman, the loopiest and possibly best supporting character from The Critic, or just a shameless rip-off?
—Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 20 Feb. 2026
See All Example Sentences for shameless
Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 27 Mar. 2026
The worst, most shameless people in the world already understand this and use that cold logic to their advantage.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2026
Okay, let’s get into the other good, bad, and ugly from episode 2 of Survivor 50, and — shameless plug alert!
—Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Mar. 2026
Like, is Glem’s entire look intentionally paying homage to Franklin Sherman, the loopiest and possibly best supporting character from The Critic, or just a shameless rip-off?
—Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 20 Feb. 2026
See All Example Sentences for shameless
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shameless
Adjective
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The president of the United States made an unabashed threat of genocide.—
Ciera Bates-Chamberlain,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Apr. 2026
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The unabashed proclamation of championship aspirations.—
Ken Sugiura,
AJC.com,
18 Apr. 2026
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Reduce Wasted Spend to Fund Your Next Project Founders are ruthless about cutting overhead, yet many creatives let thousands of dollars leak away on essential work expenses like software subscriptions, tech and supplies.—
Rhett Power,
Rolling Stone,
6 May 2026
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Stéphane de Groodt also appears, while Jochen Hägele plays the ruthless Nazi officer Dieter Frank.—
Elsa Keslassy,
Variety,
4 May 2026
Adjective
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Warnings, laments, and odes to renewal were expressed pictorially as dying days under bleeding heavens, belching volcanoes, proud icebergs, lavish rainbows amid spangling, mist-suffusing sunlight and dawns of peace and hope.—
Sebastian Smee,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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Simulation Academy at Yale is proud to announce the Graduation of approximately 75 students on Saturday, May 2.—
Simulation Academy at Yale,
Hartford Courant,
4 May 2026
Adjective
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Even his students can be casually cruel to each other, emulating a president that Artie almost cannot fathom.—
John Warner,
Chicago Tribune,
2 May 2026
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Baseball is a sport built on failure surrounded by a cruel, cynical business, but this level of irony is almost too rich to digest.—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
1 May 2026
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Set the scene There’s a definitive vibe to Boudoir de Muses—one that’s romantic in an overt way, and unashamed of its provocative nature.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
24 Feb. 2026
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In unashamed authoritarian fashion, the university barred journalists from the campus just before the police raid, and threatened their own student journalists with arrest.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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And then there's Alden Ehrenreich, who plays the part of our infuriating, unrepentant a-hole.—
Shania Russell,
Entertainment Weekly,
7 Apr. 2026
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All came adorned and unrepentant in their right to adornment.—
Zoë Hopkins,
New Yorker,
7 Feb. 2026
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The Wendy Eisenberg of Wendy Eisenberg is newly unafraid of love songs, or at least unembarrassed by their proclamations.—
Jayson Greene,
Pitchfork,
9 Apr. 2026
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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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“Shameless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shameless. Accessed 10 May. 2026.
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