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
Gayner is an unabashed acolyte of the Berkshire way of doing things, right down to his company's portfolio of long-term investments in the stock market and a folksy apathy for quarterly earnings reports.
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Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 11 Dec. 2025
To fellow-Brits, Down and Kay’s unabashed appetite for success can look like an American-style trait, simultaneously attractive and suspect.
—Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2025
The movie is vintage Brewer, an intelligent audience-pleaser filled with heart and style and unabashed but fully earned sentiment and humor.
—Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 8 Dec. 2025
Leavitt has long been unabashed about her ambitions as a performer.
—Selome Hailu, Variety, 1 Dec. 2025
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Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 11 Dec. 2025
To fellow-Brits, Down and Kay’s unabashed appetite for success can look like an American-style trait, simultaneously attractive and suspect.
—Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2025
The movie is vintage Brewer, an intelligent audience-pleaser filled with heart and style and unabashed but fully earned sentiment and humor.
—Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 8 Dec. 2025
Leavitt has long been unabashed about her ambitions as a performer.
—Selome Hailu, Variety, 1 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unabashed
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This was an unashamed 5-4-1 in three clear banks for long periods of the match, gritty, sniffing out second balls and home errors, clearances, blocks, recoveries, choosing when to press and when to sit.—
Beren Cross,
New York Times,
2 Jan. 2026
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October 7 Derailed Abraham Accords Kraft, like many Americans, is an unashamed supporter of Israel.—
Armando Salguero OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
7 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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South Florida sports history is proud to have been the host for Crump’s barrier-busting history.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
8 Jan. 2026
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The Big Ten is marching into the heart of Southern football with a proud swagger, daring any conference to challenge its claim as the power to beat in the College Football Playoff.—
Charles Odum,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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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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This lamp was designed by Giancarlo Fassina and Michele De Lucchi for Artemide in 1987, embodying a sense of shameless functionality.—
Kate McGregor,
Architectural Digest,
6 Jan. 2026
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There is nothing that can be done about the Big Ten’s shameless power grab, but something can be done about its efforts to corner more spots in a playoff bracket of any size.—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
1 Jan. 2026
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“Unabashed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unabashed. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.
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