• Unabashed

    Pronunciation

    • UK IPA: /ˌʌn.əˈbæʃt/
    • Rhymes: -æʃt

    Origin

    - + abashed

    Full definition of unabashed

    Adjective

    unabashed

    1. Not disconcerted or embarrassed.
      • 1866, Wilkie Collins, Armadale, Third book, ,For the third time Allan looked at his lawyer. And for the third time his lawyer looked back at him quite unabashed.
      • 1919, Rabindranath Tagore, "",Armed with her utter faith in the goodness she must stand unabashed before the arrogance that scoffs at the power of spirit.
    2. (of emotions, facts, actions etc.) That are not concealed or disguised, or not eliciting shame.
      • Eliot Middlemarch|34..., and when much privacy, elbowed in early life by unabashed vices, is apt to retire into extreme privacy, ...
      • 1920, Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence, ,...; a balance not artfully calculated, as her tears and her falterings showed, but resulting naturally from her unabashed sincerity.

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