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184 words match “SHAME”

ARRANTLY adv.
Notoriously, in an ill sense; infamously; impudently; shamefully. L'Estrange.
ASPERSION n.
, like the bespattering of a body with foul water; calumny. Every candid critic would be ashamed to cast wholesale aspersions on the entire body of professional teachers. Grote. Who would by base aspersions blot thy virtue. Dryden.
ASSERT v.
ce, or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate. Nothing is more shameful . . . than to assert anything to be done without a cause. Ray.
ATTRITION n.
Grief for sin arising only from fear of punishment or feelings of shame. See Contrition. Wallis.
BACKWARD; BACKWARDS adv.
From a better to a worse state, as from honor to shame, from religion to sin. The work went backward. Dryden.
BAREFACED a.
Without concealment; undisguised. Hence: Shameless; audacious. "Barefaced treason." J. Baillie.
BAREFACEDLY adv.
Openly; shamelessly. Locke.
BAREFACEDNESS n.
The quality of being barefaced; shamelessness; assurance; audaciousness.
BASELY adv.
In a base manner; with despicable meanness; dishonorably; shamefully.
BASHLESS a.
Shameless; unblushing. [Obs.] Spenser.
BEG v.
y the wayside or from house to house; to live by asking alms. I can not dig; to beg I am ashamed. Luke xvi. 3.
BISMARE; BISMER n.
Shame; abuse. [Obs.] Chaucer.
BLATTER v.
. . . preachers to blatter against me, . . . so that they had place and time to belie me shamefully. Latimer.
BLUSH v. 2 definitions
To become suffused with red in the cheeks, as from a sense of shame, modesty, or confusion; to become red from such cause, as the cheeks or face. To the nuptial bower I led her blushing like the morn. Milton. In the presence of the shameless and unblushing, the young offender is ashamed to blush. Buckminster. He would…
BLUSHLESS a.
Free from blushes; incapable of blushing; shameless; impudent. Vice now, secure, her blushless front shall raise. Dodsley.
BRAZEN a. 2 definitions
Impudent; immodest; shameless; having a front like brass; as, a brazen countenance. Brazen age. (a) (Myth.) The age of war and lawlessness which succeeded the silver age. (b) (Archæol.) See under Bronze. -- Brazen sea (Jewish Antiq.), a large laver of brass, placed in Solomon's temple for the use of the priests.…
BRAZEN-BROWED a.
Shamelessly impudent. Sir T. Browne.
BRAZENFACE n.
An impudent of shameless person. "Well said, brazenface; hold it out." Shak.
BRAZENFACED a.
Impudent; shameless.
BROWLESS a.
Without shame. L. Addison.
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