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Grief for sin arising only from fear of punishment or feelings of shame. See Contrition. Wallis.

From a better to a worse state, as from honor to shame, from religion to sin. The work went backward. Dryden.

Without concealment; undisguised. Hence: Shameless; audacious. "Barefaced treason." J. Baillie.

Openly; shamelessly. Locke.

The quality of being barefaced; shamelessness; assurance; audaciousness.

In a base manner; with despicable meanness; dishonorably; shamefully.

Shameless; unblushing. [Obs.] Spenser.

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.

Shame; abuse. [Obs.] Chaucer.

. . . preachers to blatter against me, . . . so that they had place and time to belie me shamefully. Latimer.

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…

Free from blushes; incapable of blushing; shameless; impudent. Vice now, secure, her blushless front shall raise. Dodsley.

Spurious; fictitious; sham; -- a cant term originally applied to counterfeit coin, and hence denoting anything counterfeit. [Colloq. U. S.]

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.…

Shamelessly impudent. Sir T. Browne.

An impudent of shameless person. "Well said, brazenface; hold it out." Shak.

Impudent; shameless.

Without shame. L. Addison.

Counterfeit; gaudy but worthless; sham. [Slang] "These Brummagem gentry." Lady D. Hardy.

msy, awkward workman; one who bungles. If to be a dunce or a bungler in any profession be shameful, how much more ignominious and infamous to a scholar to be such! Barrow.