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Webster 1828 Edition
Unabashed
UNABASH'ED
,Adj.
Definition 2024
unabashed
unabashed
English
Adjective
unabashed (comparative more unabashed, superlative most unabashed)
- Not disconcerted or embarrassed.
- 1866, Wilkie Collins, Armadale, Third book, Chapter V,
- 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, "Letter to M. K. Gandhi",
- Armed with her utter faith in the goodness she must stand unabashed before the arrogance that scoffs at the power of spirit.
- 1866, Wilkie Collins, Armadale, Third book, Chapter V,
- (of emotions, facts, actions etc.) That are not concealed or disguised, or not eliciting shame.
- 1871–72, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Chapter 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, Chapter XXV,
- […] ; a balance not artfully calculated, as her tears and her falterings showed, but resulting naturally from her unabashed sincerity.
- 1871–72, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Chapter 34
Synonyms
- (person: not disconcerted or embarrassed): abashless, composed, poised, undaunted, unaffected, unshamed
- (things: not concealed or disguised): abashless, barefaced, blatant, impudent, obvious, shameless, unrestrained
Translations
not disconcerted or embarrassed
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that are not concealed
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