How to Use shameless in a Sentence

shameless

adjective
  • The actor made a shameless plug for his movie.
  • Eight of the wins came against some of the league’s most shameless tankers.
    Rohan Nadkarni, SI.com, 13 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • Now, with that shameless plug out of the way, on to today's deals.
    Ars Staff, Ars Technica, 4 Feb. 2020
  • All the more when Trump is using the State of the Union to engage in shameless stunting.
    Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 5 Feb. 2019
  • All the while his shameless lickspittlery keeps him in the boss's good graces.
    The Editors Of Gq, GQ, 22 Feb. 2018
  • And the key to putting your video in front of the right market is shameless promotion.
    Yec, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2021
  • The shameless social climber was confronted and bowed out of the group.
    Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 25 June 2019
  • The shameless social climber was confronted, and bowed out of the group.
    Amy Dickinson, The Denver Post, 25 June 2019
  • First question: Isn’t this just a shameless grab for clicks?
    Gary Gramling, SI.com, 18 May 2018
  • 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
  • The protests continuing across the country may spell the end of this shameless era.
    Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 12 June 2020
  • And, again, we'll be forced to call them out for their shameless, priceless peddling.
    Fox News, 15 Aug. 2018
  • Here's a shameless picture of my cats, Tacocat and Carl Winslow.
    Rasputin Todd, Cincinnati.com, 25 July 2019
  • Instead, they were thwarted by a shameless infringement of both the letter and the spirit of the laws of the game.
    SI.com, 8 June 2018
  • The Thick of It), this is a show about how ridiculous shameless ambition can sound.
    Judy Berman, Time, 7 June 2018
  • And Trump is a glaring example of the limits of trying to shame the shameless.
    Michelle Cottle, The Atlantic, 20 Dec. 2017
  • Total was no Oedipus, but a shameless rip-off of clouds.
    Andrew Kahn, Slate Magazine, 21 Aug. 2017
  • So, too, did his soon-to-be colleague: There's something...shameless about all this.
    Jack Holmes, Esquire, 7 Feb. 2018
  • The shameless greed and aggressive lack of self awareness is peak Trump.
    Ashley Hoffman, PEOPLE.com, 24 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • To be fair to the moderators, Trump’s lies were much more extreme and shameless.
    Rafael Perez, Orange County Register, 12 Sep. 2024
  • But the Cosmos Engage is perhaps the most shameless copy the company has made to date.
    Andrew Williams, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2022
  • MacAskill’s second book was also what the Brits call fur-coat-and-no-knickers and was even more shameless than his first.
    Leif Wenar, WIRED, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The works are, in other words, truly baroque,as the artist intended: bombastic, decadent, full of trompe l’oeil cleverness, shameless.
    Sarah K. Rich, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2024

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