a. [f. BLUSH sb. + -LESS.] Without a blush, unblushing; impudent, shameless.

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1566.  Painter, Pal. Pleas., I. 60. With blushles face and vnstaied penne.

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1608.  Tourneur, Rev. Trag., III. v. 80. Some darken’d blushlesse Angle.

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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.

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1735.  Savage, Progr. Divine, 331/20 (Jod.).

        He sues, he teizes, and he perseveres:
Not blushless Henley less abash’d appears.

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1886.  Blackie, What does Hist. Teach? 32. Aristocratic Poland did this in a much more blushless way than democratic Greece.

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  Hence Blushlessly adv.

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1604.  Marston, Malcontent, I. i. Contested blushlessly he loved you but for a spurt or so.

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