shameless
Etymology
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Etymology
From Middle English shameles, shamelees, schameles, schomeles, schomeleas, from Old English sċamlēas, sċeamlēas, from Proto-Germanic *skamalausaz, equivalent to shame + -less.
Adjectiveshameless
- Having no shame, no guilt nor remorse over something considered wrong; immodest, brazen; unable to feel disgrace.
- (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, […]
- French: effronté, éhonté, sans scrupules, sans vergogne
- German: schamlos, unverschämt
- Italian: sfacciato, spudorato, svergognato
- Portuguese: desavergonhado, sem-vergonha
- Russian: бессты́дный
- Spanish: desvergonzado, caradura, descarado, impúdico
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