Shamelessness vs Sauciness - What's the difference?
shamelessness | sauciness | Related terms |
(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,
Shamelessness is a related term of sauciness.
As nouns the difference between shamelessness and sauciness
is that shamelessness is (uncountable) the state or characteristic of being shameless while sauciness is the property of being saucy.shamelessness
English
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.
