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 shameless ['ʃeimlis]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 不知羞耻的



    shameless
    [ adj ]
    feeling no shame
    <adj.all>
    a shameless imposteran unblushing apologist for fascism


    Shameless \Shame"less\, a. [AS. scamle['a]s.]
    1. Destitute of shame; wanting modesty; brazen-faced;
    insensible to disgrace. ``Such shameless bards we have.''
    --Pope.

    Shame enough to shame thee, wert thou not shameless.
    --Shak.

    2. Indicating want of modesty, or sensibility to disgrace;
    indecent; as, a shameless picture or poem.

    Syn: Impudent; unblushing; audacious; immodest; indecent;
    indelicate.
    -- {Shame"less*ly}, adv. --
    {Shame"less*ness}, n.

    1. "Wellcome is involved in shameless profiteering," contends Curtis Morriss, administrator of the infectious-disease clinic at Atlanta's charity hospital, Grady Memorial.
    2. I was particularly taken aback by the shameless way that Leonard E.B. Andrews, who bought not only the pictures but their copyrights, was allowed to promote them as if there were no self-interest involved.
    3. Gerrymandered districts are a major obstacle to effective democracy, but selective court action to invalidate some map-making abuses while overlooking others is little more than a shameless attempt to grant backdoor political power.
    4. Never in history had such a shameless thing been seen." Valladares denied he was a member of the police force of the rightist dictatorship which governed Cuba before 1959.
    5. The opening chord, a shameless steal from Bowie's Moonage Daydream, has provoked an orgy of spot-the-influence among critics.
    6. Perhaps he was not quite so shameless, but you get the picture.
    7. Mr Andreotti told the hearing that the accusations were 'shameless lies'.
    8. "The shameless attempt by the two parties to `steal' the debates threatens more than the league," the letter said. "It threatens the voters." The postcards urge the two likely nominees to commit to the league's general election debates.
    9. It was shameless. It was also humbug.
    10. Preachers and politicians used to moralize in public against Hollywood's shameless exploitation of scandalous sex.
    11. Vietnam said the talks led to some general progress, but the strongest guerrilla faction, the Khmer Rouge, called that assertion "a shameless lie."
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