a. [f. BLUSH sb. + -LESS.] Without a blush, unblushing; impudent, shameless.
1566. Painter, Pal. Pleas., I. 60. With blushles face and vnstaied penne.
1608. Tourneur, Rev. Trag., III. v. 80. Some darken’d blushlesse Angle.
1635. Quarles, Embl., I. viii. (1718), 34. But bold-fac’d mortals in our blushless times Can sing and smile, and make a sport of crimes.
1735. Savage, Progr. Divine, 331 (Jod.).
| He sues, he teizes, and he perseveres: | |
| Not blushless Henley less abash’d appears. |
1886. Blackie, What does Hist. Teach? 31. Aristocratic Poland did this in a much more blushless way than democratic Greece.
Hence Blushlessly adv.
1604. Marston, Malcontent, I. i. Contested blushlessly he loved you but for a spurt or so.
