How to Use shameless in a Sentence

shameless

adjective
  • The actor made a shameless plug for his movie.
  • Dwight is shameless; The Office finds ways to shame him all the same.
    Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2020
  • But even that isn't the end of a shameless man's career.
    Zachary B. Wolf, CNN, 3 Aug. 2021
  • And the key to putting your video in front of the right market is shameless promotion.
    Yec, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2021
  • Seen a lot of Kentucky guys play that way (shameless plug for my home state again).
    Matt Eppers, USA TODAY, 14 Apr. 2021
  • The Lost Rad Ripper is a shameless throwback to the eighties.
    Zander Morton, Outside Online, 27 May 2022
  • One thing to talk about Time for a bit of shameless self-promotion.
    Lisa Respers France, CNN, 2 Apr. 2022
  • What storied actor gave the most shameless, award-baiting turn of the year?
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Jan. 2021
  • Biden is, again, no model in this area, yet also not as shameless as Trump.
    Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 2 Nov. 2020
  • Not a fresh, impromptu snag, but a wide, shameless bull run up the whole fatted calf.
    Bruce Handy, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2021
  • But the Cosmos Engage is perhaps the most shameless copy the company has made to date.
    Andrew Williams, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2022
  • The name sounds a little bit too much like shameless self-promotion, right?
    Tribune News Service, cleveland, 28 June 2021
  • For most slasher film aficionados, shameless jump scares and high body counts are well worth the price of a ticket.
    Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 13 Oct. 2021
  • Like the rest of The Wolf of Wall Street, the shipwreck scene is manic, jaw-droppingly shameless, and darkly funny.
    Meg Walters, Vulture, 2 Nov. 2022
  • The humor was broad and shameless, embracing bad puns and big pratfalls.
    Jody Rosen, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2023
  • Still, there's strange truth in all the shameless sleaze, this universe as plastic as Batman's credit card.
    Darren Franich, EW.com, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Its hawker is a loud, bold and shameless salesman, his stock is endless, and the streets eat it like pigeons and popcorn, all day e’ry day.
    Jonathan Rowe, Spin, 11 Aug. 2023
  • These are an award-worthy dupe, if there were awards for shameless snack copycatting.
    Alex Beggs, Bon Appétit, 14 Oct. 2020
  • This is such a big violation that even Lavik, who seems shameless, could not bring himself to say this aloud.
    Charles Tiefer, Forbes, 7 May 2023
  • Still, Collins was more shameless than her American cousins.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 28 June 2021
  • As a shameless suck-up with a remarkable ability to fail upward, Tom is on track to conquer the world.
    Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2023
  • In my 14 years here, a couple of shameless and uncontrollable crying fits come to mind.
    Nneka Joi, Glamour, 21 Oct. 2021
  • This shameless act of cowardice and hate is designed to get attention and divide us.
    Melissa Noel, Essence, 13 Nov. 2022
  • There’s more to the picture than some outwardly shameless players, though.
    Rita Katz, Wired, 30 Oct. 2020
  • Now, much of the new season is pretty shameless pandering.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 15 Feb. 2023
  • For Trump, who is shameless and already twice survived impeachment, that's perhaps not such a high price.
    Zachary B. Wolf, CNN, 14 Dec. 2021
  • That, at least, was a question some in the press were asking as the fallout from DeSantis’s shameless stunt was still being assessed.
    Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 20 Sep. 2022
  • Retail theft is so widespread that San Francisco now has its own genre of viral footage of shameless shoplifters.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 14 Oct. 2021
  • The quietness outside, the ability to be a voyeur, how funny and shameless and alive the city is, and will probably always be, even without you in it.
    Brienne Walsh, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2021
  • Charles thought Kate to be a shameless flirt; Kate thought Charles to be extravagantly jealous.
    April White, BostonGlobe.com, 7 June 2022

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