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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
Utah was sitting on a mountain of draft picks and decided that enough shameless tanking is enough — after this year, anyway.
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Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 6 Feb. 2026
Trevor is delightfully shameless in his mediocrity.
—Kathleen Newman-Bremang, Refinery29, 27 Jan. 2026
This lamp was designed by Giancarlo Fassina and Michele De Lucchi for Artemide in 1987, embodying a sense of shameless functionality.
—Kate McGregor, Architectural Digest, 6 Jan. 2026
There is nothing that can be done about the Big Ten’s shameless power grab, but something can be done about its efforts to corner more spots in a playoff bracket of any size.
—Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1 Jan. 2026
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Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 6 Feb. 2026
Trevor is delightfully shameless in his mediocrity.
—Kathleen Newman-Bremang, Refinery29, 27 Jan. 2026
This lamp was designed by Giancarlo Fassina and Michele De Lucchi for Artemide in 1987, embodying a sense of shameless functionality.
—Kate McGregor, Architectural Digest, 6 Jan. 2026
There is nothing that can be done about the Big Ten’s shameless power grab, but something can be done about its efforts to corner more spots in a playoff bracket of any size.
—Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shameless
Adjective
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As the years piled up, Beam developed an appreciation for collaborators, recording full albums with Ben Bridwell, Jesca Hoop, and Calexico, setting him on the path that takes him to the unabashed glow of the new Hen’s Teeth.—
Stephen Thomas Erlewine,
Pitchfork,
2 Mar. 2026
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His unabashed depiction of America’s underbelly is super popular in Europe.—
Nate Freeman,
Vanity Fair,
25 Feb. 2026
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Lydia, naturally, has her own reasons for pairing Agnes and Daisy together, evolving from a ruthless zealot and disciplinarian in Handmaid’s Tale into a kind of double agent looking to overthrow Gilead from within the hallowed halls of power in Testaments, as the finale set her up to do.—
Max Gao,
HollywoodReporter,
5 Mar. 2026
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After enduring a tough patch in business, fate changes his course, turning him into El Serpiente, a ruthless political strategist.—
Anna Marie de la Fuente,
Variety,
3 Mar. 2026
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After all, Payton only weeks ago acknowledged Denver could be proud of a 14-3 season and simultaneously take a sober view of it.—
Parker Gabriel,
Denver Post,
10 Mar. 2026
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Denver Broncos quarterback Bo Nix and his wife, Izzy Smoke Nix, are the proud parents of a baby girl.—
Sarah Scott,
Parents,
9 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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That’s the cruel beauty of golf.—
Mike Bianchi,
The Orlando Sentinel,
7 Mar. 2026
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Few Iranians will mourn the demise of the cruel and murderous Ayatollah Khamenei or his cohorts, and a large segment of Iranians want the corrupt religious regime gone.—
Trudy Rubin,
Twin Cities,
6 Mar. 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
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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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Throughout his sentencing, the unrepentant Routh displayed contempt for the proceedings, even offering to trade his life in a prisoner swap.—
David Fischer,
Los Angeles Times,
4 Feb. 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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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 11 Mar. 2026.
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