Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not shamed; not ashamed; not abashed.

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  • adjective Not shamed.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ shamed

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Examples

  • Secretly he scorned the bustling new-rich like the Dagenhams and Sheffields who still jaunted and were unshamed.

    The Stars My Destination Bester, Alfred 1956

  • Secretly he scorned the bustling new-rich like the Dagenhams and Sheffields who still jaunted and were unshamed.

    The Stars My Destination Bester, Alfred 1956

  • He would not, in February, have heard the song-lark, that unshamed rival of an English cousin famed in poetry, and the sharp crescendo of the coach-whip bird would scarcely be classed as “sweet.”

    The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders Scott, Ernest, 1868-1939 1914

  • Presently he heard his father coughing near by; and the sound was hateful, because it seemed secure and unshamed.

    The Flirt 1912

  • Presently he heard his father coughing near by; and the sound was hateful, because it seemed secure and unshamed.

    The Flirt Booth Tarkington 1907

  • The blood tax and money tax alike fell far too heavily on the patriots; while many a parasite grew rich in unshamed safety.

    Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray William Charles Henry Wood 1905

  • He would not, in February, have heard the song-lark, that unshamed rival of an English cousin famed in poetry, and the sharp crescendo of the coach-whip bird would scarcely be classed as "sweet."

    The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders Ernest Scott 1903

  • BILL [unshamed] So I would, mate, and often av, cheerful.

    Major Barbara George Bernard Shaw 1903

  • IN God's name, said Sir Launcelot, for I promise you, by the faith of my body, I had as much to do as I might to save myself from you unshamed, and therefore have ye no doubt of none earthly knight.

    Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table, Volume 1 1903

  • My wife, shamed or unshamed, humbled or unhumbled, true to her marriage vows or false to them, now legally the wife of another, has never ceased to be my wife.

    The Younger Set 1899

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