shameless

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English

Etymology

From Middle English shameles, shamelees, schameles, schomeles, schomeleas, from Old English sċamlēas, sċeamlēas (“without shame; shameless”), from Proto-Germanic *skamalausaz (“shameless”), equivalent to shame +‎ -less. Cognate with West Frisian skamteleas (“shameless”), Dutch schaamteloos (“shameless”), German schamlos (“shameless”), Danish skamløs (“shameless”), Swedish skamlös (“shameless”), Icelandic skammlaus (“shameless; unashamed”).

Adjective

shameless (comparative more shameless, superlative most shameless)

1. Having no shame, no guilt nor remorse over something considered wrong; immodest; unable to feel disgrace.

Derived terms

• shamelessly
• shamelessness

Translations

having no shame

• Arabic: وَقِح‎ m (waqiḥ), صَفِيق‎ m (ṣafīq)

  Egyptian Arabic: بجح‎ m (begeḥ)

• Azerbaijani: arsız, utanmaz, həyasız, abırsız, sırtıq
• Catalan: desvergonyit (ca), pocavergonya (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 无耻 (zh)

• Dutch: schaamteloos (nl)
• Esperanto: senhonte
• Finnish: häpeilemätön
• French: effronté (fr), éhonté (fr), sans scrupules (fr)
• Galician: desvergonzado (gl)
• German: schamlos (de), unverschämt (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἀναίσχυντος (anaískhuntos)

• Hebrew: חֲסַר בּוּשָׁה‎ (ḥasar bushah)
• Hungarian: szégyentelen (hu)
• Ido: senshama (io)
• Irish: dínáireach, mínáireach, neamhnáireach

• Italian: sfacciato (it) m, spudorato (it) m, svergognato (it) m
• Japanese: 破廉恥 (ja) (はれんち, harenchi)
• Maori: whakatautau(w)hea
• Norman: dêhonté
• Occitan: desvergonhat (oc)
• Pashto: بې شرمه‎ (ps) (be šarma), بدسترګی‎ (badstërgay)
• Persian: بی‌شرم‎ (bi-šarm)
• Polish: bezwstydny (pl) m
• Portuguese: desavergonhado (pt), sem-vergonha (pt)
• Russian: бессты́дный (ru) (besstýdnyj), ни́зкий (ru) (nízkij), позорный (ru) (pozornyj)
• Serbo-Croatian: bȅsrāman (sh), bȅstīdan (sh)
• Spanish: sin vergüenza
• Swedish: skamlös (sv)
• Tagalog: walang hiya
• Welsh: digywilydd (cy)
• Zazaki: bêar