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English
Etymology
From un- + abashed.
Pronunciation
Adjective
unabashed (comparative more unabashed, superlative most unabashed)
- Not disconcerted or embarrassed.
- Synonyms: abashless, composed, poised, unaffected, undaunted, unshamed
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.
- Synonyms: abashless, barefaced, blatant, impudent, obvious, shameless, unrestrained
1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter XXXIV, in Middlemarch , volume II, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book IV, page 180: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