mindmap root((无耻)) shameless implies a lack of effective restraints, such as modesty, an active conscience, or a sense of decency: told a ~ lie. brazen adds to shameless an implication of defiant insolence: stood up to him with ~ arrogance. barefaced implies absence of all efforts to disguise or mask one's transgressions and connotes extreme effrontery: a ~lie. brash stresses impetuousness and may imply heedlessness and temerity: won them over with his ~ but charming manner. impudent adds to shameless implications of bold or pert defiance of consideration of modesty or decency: a rude and ~ reply to a polite question.