unabashed
English
WOTD – 14 September 2008
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: ŭn'ə-băshtʹ, IPA(key): /ˌʌnəˈbæʃt/
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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.
- Of actions, emotions, facts, etc.: that are not concealed or disguised, or not eliciting shame.
- 1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter XXXIV, in Middlemarch […], volume II, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book IV, page 180:
- [G]oodness 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, [...]
- 1920, Edith Wharton, “Chapter XXV”, in The Age of Innocence:
- [...]; a balance not artfully calculated, as her tears and her falterings showed, but resulting naturally from her unabashed sincerity.
Translations
not disconcerted or embarrassed
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that are not concealed
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