Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Not self-conscious; natural and genuine.
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- adjective Not
self-conscious ; natural andgenuine
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- adjective not self-conscious
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Examples
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Once inside, Franken's close to your worst nightmare as a guest, seeking out people like Henry Kissinger and Boyden Gray to mock with the kind of unselfconscious glee that makes him look slightly unhinged.
Michelle Orange: God Spoke and He's Feeling Chatty: The Al Franken Documentary 2008
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My daughter just decided to go to the college I graduated from 30 years ago — Smith — and has been deluged with outrageous homophobic comments, made with the kind of unselfconscious impunity with which bigots once spoke about Jews or Blacks.
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But I'm convinced that from this kind of unselfconscious hyper-local personal story-telling, you'll discover that you and I are not all that different.
Fragments From Floyd 2010
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En Fa Mineur closed the recital and brought the house down in a blaze of unselfconscious glory.
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They seem to be completely unselfconscious about running quite spectacular social lives from the parental home.
Teenagers are pushing the boundaries and parents don't know what to do 2011
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But that made me realize that somewhere in our long lost “baby years” we lose our sense of unselfconscious fun.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grandmothers Jack Canfield 2011
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Ms. Arianda is quite a bit more hard-edged than Holliday—her Noo Yawk accent could shatter bulletproof glass at a thousand yards—but also quiveringly vulnerable and full of an unselfconscious delight in her own self-evident appeal.
The Blacker Shade of Blue Terry Teachout 2011
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The four-part program, by the Israeli troupe's artistic director, Ohad Naharin, lasts about an hour and feels like an unselfconscious nod to the YouTube generation.
High-Style Highlights Robert Greskovic 2010
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But that made me realize that somewhere in our long lost “baby years” we lose our sense of unselfconscious fun.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grandmothers Jack Canfield 2011
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A walking talking 'conflict of interest', and completely unselfconscious about it.
Oh Sarah, we can see your slip hanging from your dress (Blog for Democracy) 2009
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