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(uncountable) The state or characteristic of being shameless..
[H]e added to all his other shamelessness this, that he offered the patriarch a large sum of money to buy a bishopric of him.
"For instance as to her shamelessness. She was always ready to run half naked about the hills. . . ."
She was quite honest with herself; she knew that she was watching for Clay, and she had a magnificent shamelessness in her quest.
Shoals of letters are published every week from all parts of the Union telling stories of the unhappiness produced by marriage, sometimes mere bursts of ill-temper, often cynical shamelessnesses, occasionally stories of deep pathos, but all intended as denunciations of the existing scheme of morals, all followed by the same remark that while marriage exists there can be no happiness for mankind.
He was able to write in the gloom of his bottle only because of his noseglow nose's glow as it slid over the paper and while he scribbled & scratched nameless shamelessnesses about ethers everybody ever he met. . . .
He asked of course after Taimsa, who was still dallying in shamelessnesses at Antioch.
Use shamelessness when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Shamelessness means (uncountable) The state or characteristic of being shameless..
Common synonyms include immodesty, unself-consciousness, brazenness.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
[H]e added to all his other shamelessness this, that he offered the patriarch a large sum of money to buy a bishopric of him.
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