恥はじ知しらず

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Common wordJLPTN1Freq.FrequencyTop 50,000

Meanings

shameless; shameless person

Used as a noun or adjectival noun to describe someone who lacks shame or acts without embarrassment. Often carries a strong negative judgment.

恥はじ知しらずな〈人ひと〉a shameless person
彼かれは約やく束そくを破やぶっても平へい気きな恥はじ知しらずな人ひとだ。
He's a shameless person who doesn't care even when he breaks his promises.
〈人ひと〉は恥はじ知しらずだsomeone is shameless
人ひとの物ものを盗ぬすんで平へい気きな顔かおをするなんて、彼かれは恥はじ知しらずだ。
Stealing someone's things and acting like nothing happened—he's shameless.
恥はじ知しらずにも〈動どう詞し〉to shamelessly do something
彼かれは恥はじ知しらずにも借かりたお金かねを返かえさなかった。
He shamelessly never paid back the money he borrowed.

図ずう々ずうしいN3
図々しい describes brazen or impudent behavior in social situations, while 恥知らず is a harsher moral condemnation implying a total lack of shame.
厚あつかましいN2
厚かましい focuses on being pushy or overly forward, while 恥知らず emphasizes a deeper lack of moral sense or shame.
破は廉れん恥ち
破廉恥 is a formal, literary term for shameless conduct, often used in writing, while 恥知らず is more direct and can describe a person outright.
無む恥ちN1
恥知らず is a more colloquial, direct noun for a shameless person, while 無恥 is a more formal, often literary adjective describing the same quality.

恥はずかしいN4
恥ずかしい means 'embarrassed/shy' (having shame), the opposite feeling from 恥知らず, which describes someone who has none.
恥はじさらしN1
恥さらし describes someone or something that brings shame onto others, while 恥知らず describes a person who personally has no sense of shame at all.

Compound of 恥 (はじ, 'shame') and 知らず (しらず, 'not knowing'), literally 'not knowing shame'.