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Shamelessness is a related term of cheek.


As a noun shamelessness

is (uncountable) the state or characteristic of being shameless.

As a proper noun cheek is

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shamelessness

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) The state or characteristic of being shameless.
  • * 1853 , (Charles Kingsley), Hypatia , ch. 7:
    • [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.
  • * 1914 , (Joseph Conrad), The Arrow of Gold , ch. 1:
    • "For instance as to her shamelessness . She was always ready to run half naked about the hills. . . ."
  • * 1919 , (Mary Roberts Rinehart), Dangerous Days , ch. 50:
    • She was quite honest with herself; she knew that she was watching for Clay, and she had a magnificent shamelessness in her quest.
  • (countable, rare) An utterance or action which is shameless.
  • * 1872 May 18, "The Womens Rights' Convention in New York," The Spectator , Volume 45, p. 624:
    • 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.
  • * 1963 , (James Joyce) and David Hayman, A First-Draft Version of Finnegans Wake (2002 edition), ISBN 9781893311268, p. 109:
    • 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. . . .
  • * 2006 , Judith Weingarten, The Chronicle of Zenobia , ISBN 9781843862192, p. 104:
    • He asked of course after Taimsa, who was still dallying in shamelessnesses at Antioch.

    Synonyms

    * (state or characteristic of being shameless) immodesty, unself-consciousness

    cheek

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (anatomy) The soft skin on each side of the face, below the eyes; the outer surface of the sides of the oral cavity.
  • (informal, usually, in the plural) A buttock.
  • (informal) Impudence.
    • You’ve got some cheek , asking me for money!
  • (biology, informal) One of the genae, flat areas on the sides of a trilobite's cephalon.
  • The pieces of a machine, or of timber or stonework, that form corresponding sides or a similar pair.
    • the cheeks''' of a vice; the '''cheeks of a gun carriage
  • (in plural) The branches of a bridle bit.
    • (Knight)
  • (metalworking) The middle section of a flask, made so that it can be moved laterally, to permit the removal of the pattern from the mould.

    • Synonyms

    * (side of the face) wang * (impudence) impertinence, impudence, brass neck (slang), nerve (informal), sass * (gena) gena

    Derived terms

    * cheeked * cheekbone * cheeky * free cheek * fixed cheek * turn the other cheek

    See also

    * buccal * genal

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To be impudent towards.
    • Don't cheek me, you little rascal!