Definitions

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  • adverb In an unabashed manner; without embarrassment or hesitation.

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  • adverb in an unabashed manner

Etymologies

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unabashed +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • From the start, Rauschenberg embraced Johns in unabashedly romantic terms, I have photos of him then that would break your heart.

    R.I.P Robert Rauschenberg 2008

  • I suspect, with his keen eye for the picayune, he would have anticipated my current pretzel contretemps and he would have meditated at length upon this notion of “value,” a word unabashedly printed upon too many things, as if the word “Value” is a kind of naked lady you find in a deck of cards.

    Where is Nicholson Baker? : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits 2007

  • He mentions the "J" word unabashedly, performed his Grammy-winning song "At Angel Wing."

    CNN Transcript Mar 25, 2005 2005

  • A little figure that was passing rapidly along the corridor stopped on seeing the door ajar and waved a long supple hand and wagged a frizzly flaxen poll and gave a humorous wink out of his gray-green eyes and called unabashedly, before he resumed his skurrying flight:

    Under the Skylights Henry Blake Fuller 1893

  • Californian indie-rock heroes Pavement -- who wore the slacker tag unabashedly, if not proudly, in the 1990s -- worked enough magic Sunday at Roy Wilkins Auditorium to make their lackadaisical reputation disappear.

    Music 2010

  • Californian indie-rock heroes Pavement -- who wore the slacker tag unabashedly, if not proudly, in the 1990s -- worked enough magic Sunday at Roy Wilkins Auditorium to make their lackadaisical reputation disappear.

    Music 2010

  • Californian indie-rock heroes Pavement -- who wore the slacker tag unabashedly, if not proudly, in the 1990s -- worked enough magic Sunday at Roy Wilkins Auditorium to make their lackadaisical reputation disappear.

    Music 2010

  • Californian indie-rock heroes Pavement -- who wore the slacker tag unabashedly, if not proudly, in the 1990s -- worked enough magic Sunday at Roy Wilkins Auditorium to make their lackadaisical reputation disappear.

    Music 2010

  • Californian indie-rock heroes Pavement -- who wore the slacker tag unabashedly, if not proudly, in the 1990s -- worked enough magic Sunday at Roy Wilkins Auditorium to make their lackadaisical reputation disappear.

    StarTribune.com rss feed 2010

  • Where will this kind of unabashedly cynical behavior take us in the course of the next two years?

    Barbara Leaming: The New Start Treaty: A Question of Conscience for the GOP Barbara Leaming 2010

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