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SHAMELESSLY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does shamelessly mean?
• SHAMELESSLY (adverb)
The adverb SHAMELESSLY has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: SHAMELESSLY used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Without shame
Synonyms:
barefacedly; shamelessly; unashamedly
Context example:
he unashamedly abandoned the project when he realized he would not gain from it
Pertainym:
shameless (feeling no shame)
Context examples
There was stigma enough in the fact of it, but shamelessly to flaunt it in the face of the world—her world—was going too far.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
There was no fight left in Lip-lip, and he ran away shamelessly, his victim hot on his heels and worrying him all the way back to his own tepee.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Three times, four times, and half a dozen times, his sharp little teeth scored on the newcomer, until White Fang, yelping shamelessly, fled to the protection of his mother.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
But he luffed the boat less delicately, spilling the wind shamelessly from the sail so as to prolong the tack to the north shore.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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