as in unashamed
not embarrassed or ashamed
unabashed by their booing and hissing, he continued with his musical performance
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Recent Examples of unabashed
Infiniti is an unabashed K-pop fan.
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Jake Kanter, Deadline, 12 Jan. 2026
Rick is an unabashed man with an over-the-top love of getting into sticky situations.
—Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 12 Jan. 2026
Some part of Baudelaire’s lifelong free-spending and indolence seems to be a direct rebellion against the man, if not outright Freudian jealousy—Charles was an unabashed mama’s boy.
—Literary Hub, 22 Dec. 2025
Hunt was an unabashed lobbyist for his programs and initiatives, often making late-night phone calls to lawmakers to persuade them.
—Gary D. Robertson, Fortune, 19 Dec. 2025
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Jake Kanter, Deadline, 12 Jan. 2026
Rick is an unabashed man with an over-the-top love of getting into sticky situations.
—Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 12 Jan. 2026
Some part of Baudelaire’s lifelong free-spending and indolence seems to be a direct rebellion against the man, if not outright Freudian jealousy—Charles was an unabashed mama’s boy.
—Literary Hub, 22 Dec. 2025
Hunt was an unabashed lobbyist for his programs and initiatives, often making late-night phone calls to lawmakers to persuade them.
—Gary D. Robertson, Fortune, 19 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unabashed
Adjective
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In unashamed authoritarian fashion, the university barred journalists from the campus just before the police raid, and threatened their own student journalists with arrest.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Jan. 2026
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There have also been numerous shore leave adventures and unashamed comedy outings where the protagonists' actions have little bearing on the universe beyond their starship hull.—
Richard Edwards,
Space.com,
22 Jan. 2026
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Playing in this year's Super Bowl was Rockwall legend Jaxon Smith-Njigba, and the Rockwall community couldn't be prouder of him, holding a watch party in his honor.—
Briseida Holguin,
CBS News,
9 Feb. 2026
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The Patriots’ defense, however, should stand proud after Sunday’s contest.—
Doug Kyed,
Hartford Courant,
9 Feb. 2026
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His light, slurring, hornlike, Al Green-ish singing now melted into the rest of his watery compositions, making the lyrics hard to hear but his great reservoir of unembarrassed feeling impossible to miss.—
Vinson Cunningham,
New Yorker,
25 Dec. 2025
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The through line in all this is an austere aesthetic of unembarrassed domination that is also somehow insecure in its flashiness.—
James Folta,
Literary Hub,
10 Dec. 2025
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Utah was sitting on a mountain of draft picks and decided that enough shameless tanking is enough — after this year, anyway.—
Bennett Durando,
Denver Post,
6 Feb. 2026
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Trevor is delightfully shameless in his mediocrity.—
Kathleen Newman-Bremang,
Refinery29,
27 Jan. 2026
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“Unabashed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unabashed. Accessed 10 Feb. 2026.
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