frontless
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- adjective Without a face or front; figuratively, without shame or modesty; not diffident; shameless.
Examples
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That the duchess had not superior parts, but was a bold frontless woman, who knew how to make the most of her opportunities in life.
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He had never blushed in his life: no humiliation could abash him: his nerves were not capable of sensation enough to stir his life, and make colour mount to his cheek: he had no fire in his blood, and no modesty in his soul: he was a frontless, arrogant; decorous slip of the commonplace; conceited, inane, insipid: and this gentleman had a notion of wooing Miss Keeldar!
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'Tis frontless impudence makes the grand appearance and carries the world before it.
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And I again challenge him to produce any one letter or tittle out of any of my writings to give countenance unto this frontless calumny.
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Many, especially of the monks, travelled through the different provinces; and not only sold, with most frontless impudence, their fictitious relics, but also deceived the eyes of the multitude with ludicrous combats with evil spirits or genii.
Note
The word 'frontless' is considered obsolete or archaic.
