shameless
Etymology

From Middle English shameles, shamelees, schameles, schomeles, schomeleas, from Old English sċamlēas, sċeamlēas, from Proto-Germanic *skamalausaz, equivalent to shame + -less.

Adjective

shameless

  1. Having no shame, no guilt nor remorse over something considered wrong; immodest, brazen; unable to feel disgrace.
  2. (obsolete) Not subject to other people’s shaming or reproach.
    • c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC ↗, page 62, lines 38–41:
      He shall be as now nameles,
      But he shall not be blameles,
      Nor he shall not be shameles;
      For sure he wrought amys, […]
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