Shamelessness vs Chutzpah - What's the difference?
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(uncountable) The state or characteristic of being shameless.
* 1853 , (Charles Kingsley), Hypatia , ch. 7:
* 1914 , (Joseph Conrad), The Arrow of Gold , ch. 1:
* 1919 , (Mary Roberts Rinehart), Dangerous Days , ch. 50:
(countable, rare) An utterance or action which is shameless.
* 1872 May 18, "The Womens Rights' Convention in New York," The Spectator , Volume 45,
* 1963 , (James Joyce) and David Hayman, A First-Draft Version of Finnegans Wake (2002 edition), ISBN 9781893311268,
* 2006 , Judith Weingarten, The Chronicle of Zenobia , ISBN 9781843862192,
(slang) Nearly arrogant courage; utter audacity, effrontery or impudence; supreme self-confidence; exaggerated self-opinion;
* 22/01/2007 , The Times,
* 12/11/2007 , John Scalzi, Whatever,
As nouns the difference between shamelessness and chutzpah
is that shamelessness is the state or characteristic of being shameless while chutzpah is nearly arrogant courage; utter audacity, effrontery or impudence; supreme self-confidence; exaggerated self-opinion.shamelessness
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Noun
- [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.
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.
p. 109:
- He was able to write in the gloom of his bottle only because of his
noseglownose's glow as it slid over the paper and while he scribbled & scratched nameless shamelessnesses aboutetherseverybody ever he met. . . .
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-consciousnesschutzpah
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Alternative forms
* khutzpah * khutspah * chutspah * khutspeNoun
(wikipedia chutzpah) (-)Modern Manners
- If the service is rotten and the meal a disaster, we should withhold a tip and explain why we are doing so. Few of us have the chutzpah to do this.
Your Creation Museum Report
- But seriously, the ability to just come out and put on a placard that the Jurassic era is temporally contiguous with the Fifth Dynasty of the Old Kingdom of Egypt — well, there’s a word for that, and that word is chutzpah .