Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Without shame.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Without shame.

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  • adjective Without a brow or eyebrows.
  • adjective obsolete Without shame.

Etymologies

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brow +‎ -less

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Examples

  • Fresh from sleep, her round, browless face showed about as much emotion as a picture drawn by one of the boys in the first year of preschool: a big circle with minuscule circle eyes and nose plus a crooked line for a mouth.

    As Husbands Go Susan Isaacs 2010

  • Fresh from sleep, her round, browless face showed about as much emotion as a picture drawn by one of the boys in the first year of preschool: a big circle with minuscule circle eyes and nose plus a crooked line for a mouth.

    As Husbands Go Susan Isaacs 2010

  • Now I have left NYC for a paradise where cyclists leave Lefty-adorned bikes unlocked while they sit down for a slice and beer, so I don't have an excuse for being browless.

    Coming Apart at the Hems: Excessive Panting BikeSnobNYC 2009

  • Vyesovshchikov sat on his chair straight as a pole, his palms resting on his knees, and his pockmarked face, browless and thin-lipped, immobile as a mask.

    Mother 2003

  • The jaw dominated her face, although two vivid eyes darted in deep, browless sockets.

    A Corpse is a Corpse Browne, Richard W 2001

  • Something had gone haywire and she could see in the set of his mouth and sad browless eyes that he realized his paradise was withering.

    The Search Diane Carey 2000

  • Something had gone haywire and she could see in the set of his mouth and sad browless eyes that he realized his paradise was withering.

    The Search Diane Carey 2000

  • Something had gone haywire and she could see in the set of his mouth and sad browless eyes that he realized his paradise was withering.

    The Search Diane Carey 2000

  • Immense as they had been, browless and lashless, there had still been something horribly human in the round blue eye that gazed up at him so mockingly.

    Ship Of Magic Hobb, Robin 1998

  • Ham actors, for whom eyebrows are the banners and billboards of all emotion, could learn a lot about expression from the browless Mona, the browless macaque.

    Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas Robbins, Tom 1994

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