shamelessly
English
Etymology
Adverb
shamelessly (comparative more shamelessly, superlative most shamelessly)
- In a shameless manner; without shame; impudently.
- 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 68:
- Bradly served him a handsome allowance, and Podson was at it, even in the process of its being served. He guzzled shamelessly, pushing food into an overstuffed mouth, his eye glazed to all intrusion on a gastric debauch.
Translations
in a shameless manner
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References
- Noah Webster (1828) “shamelessly”, in An American Dictionary of the English Language: […], volume II (J–Z), New York, N.Y.: […] S. Converse; printed by Hezekiah Howe […], →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “shamelessly”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.