unabashed


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un·a·bashed

 (ŭn′ə-băsht′)
adj.
1. Not disconcerted or embarrassed; poised.
2. Not concealed or disguised; obvious: unabashed disgust.

un′a·bash′ed·ly (-băsh′ĭd-lē) adv.
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unabashed

(ˌʌnəˈbæʃt)
adj
not ashamed, embarrassed, or ill at ease
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un•a•bashed

(ˌʌn əˈbæʃt)
adj.
not abashed; unapologetic.
[1570–75]
un•a•bash•ed•ly (ˌʌn əˈbæʃ ɪd li) adv.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.unabashed - not embarrassedunabashed - not embarrassed; "a tinseled charm and unabashed sentimentality"- Jerome Stone; "an unembarrassed greeting as if nothing untoward had happened"
unashamed - used of persons or their behavior; feeling no shame
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unabashed

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unabashed

adjective
Characterized by or done without shame:
Informal: brassy.
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Translations

unabashed

[ˈʌnəˈbæʃt] ADJ (= shameless) → descarado, desvergonzado; (= unperturbed) → impertérrito
"yes," he said quite unabashed-sí -dijo sin alterarse
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unabashed

[ˌʌnəˈbæʃt] adjincorrigible
to be unabashed → être nullement décontenancé(e)
to seem unabashed → sembler nullement décontenancé(e)
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unabashed

adj (= not ashamed, embarrassed)dreist, unverfroren; (= not overawed)unbeeindruckt; he is an unabashed romanticer ist ein schamloser Romantiker
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unabashed

[ˌʌnəˈbæʃt] adjimperterrito/a
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References in classic literature ?
He made no answer to this, except to smile at me with unabashed pleasure and affection as I drove away.
Thus he would refer to the shape of Madonna Lampiada's sumptuous eyelids, and to her shell-like ears, to the correct length and shape of Madonna Amororrisca's nose, to the lily tower of Madonna Verdespina's throat; nor would the unabashed old Florentine shrink from calling attention to the unfairness of Madonna Selvaggia's covering up her dainty bosom, just as he was about to discourse upon "those two hills of snow and of roses with two little crowns of fine rubies on their peaks.
They were as unabashed as so many princesses, but, alas!
Lydia was Lydia still; untamed, unabashed, wild, noisy, and fearless.
Can I see him?" asked Pierre, awkwardly as usual, but unabashed.
"All this fuss is about nothing at all," she said, facing Ozma unabashed. "You can't prove he picked the six-leaved clover, so you've no right to accuse him of it.
It was the perfect balance she had held between their loyalty to others and their honesty to themselves that had so stirred and yet tranquillized him; a balance not artfully calculated, as her tears and her falterings showed, but resulting naturally from her unabashed sincerity.
If any one will here contend that there must have been traits of goodness in old Featherstone, I will not presume to deny this; but I must observe that goodness is of a modest nature, easily discouraged, and when much privacy, elbowed in early life by unabashed vices, is apt to retire into extreme privacy, so that it is more easily believed in by those who construct a selfish old gentleman theoretically, than by those who form the narrower judgments based on his personal acquaintance.
"Have you heard the news?" he continued, unabashed by treatment to which he was becoming accustomed.
But the Cockney was unabashed, though mad, stark mad.
"Go on!" I said, quite unabashed, and just as airy as ever.
At first, unlike its ordinary course, the disease seemed to confine itself to the higher circles of society, selecting its victims from among the proud, the well-born, and the wealthy, entering unabashed into stately chambers, and lying down with the slumberers in silken beds.