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as in unabashed
not embarrassed or ashamed
unashamed of her religious beliefs and values
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as in ruthless
not sorry for having done wrong
even after being convicted of housing violations, the slumlord remained as unashamed as ever
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Recent Examples of unashamed
October 7 Derailed Abraham Accords Kraft, like many Americans, is an unashamed supporter of Israel.
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Armando Salguero Outkick, FOXNews.com, 7 Nov. 2025
Online, people shared reactions, from heart emoji to unashamed thirst posts.
—Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Nov. 2025
Parson’s future fashion leaders used riotous, unashamed, almost unruly brightness — fused with enormous amounts of structure, substance, and intent.
—Jeetendr Sehdev, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
What’s different, after 25 years of all that freshly unashamed ABBA love, is that our wistful nostalgia isn’t just for ABBA anymore.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 15 Aug. 2025
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Armando Salguero Outkick, FOXNews.com, 7 Nov. 2025
Online, people shared reactions, from heart emoji to unashamed thirst posts.
—Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Nov. 2025
Parson’s future fashion leaders used riotous, unashamed, almost unruly brightness — fused with enormous amounts of structure, substance, and intent.
—Jeetendr Sehdev, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
What’s different, after 25 years of all that freshly unashamed ABBA love, is that our wistful nostalgia isn’t just for ABBA anymore.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 15 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unashamed
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Making a film with a director so unabashed about his leftism was a new but grounding experience for Palmer.—
Selome Hailu,
Variety,
4 Mar. 2026
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As the years piled up, Beam developed an appreciation for collaborators, recording full albums with Ben Bridwell, Jesca Hoop, and Calexico, setting him on the path that takes him to the unabashed glow of the new Hen’s Teeth.—
Stephen Thomas Erlewine,
Pitchfork,
2 Mar. 2026
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Lydia, naturally, has her own reasons for pairing Agnes and Daisy together, evolving from a ruthless zealot and disciplinarian in Handmaid’s Tale into a kind of double agent looking to overthrow Gilead from within the hallowed halls of power in Testaments, as the finale set her up to do.—
Max Gao,
HollywoodReporter,
5 Mar. 2026
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After enduring a tough patch in business, fate changes his course, turning him into El Serpiente, a ruthless political strategist.—
Anna Marie de la Fuente,
Variety,
3 Mar. 2026
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After all, Payton only weeks ago acknowledged Denver could be proud of a 14-3 season and simultaneously take a sober view of it.—
Parker Gabriel,
Denver Post,
10 Mar. 2026
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Denver Broncos quarterback Bo Nix and his wife, Izzy Smoke Nix, are the proud parents of a baby girl.—
Sarah Scott,
Parents,
9 Mar. 2026
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All came adorned and unrepentant in their right to adornment.—
Zoë Hopkins,
New Yorker,
7 Feb. 2026
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Throughout his sentencing, the unrepentant Routh displayed contempt for the proceedings, even offering to trade his life in a prisoner swap.—
David Fischer,
Los Angeles Times,
4 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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Okay, let’s get into the other good, bad, and ugly from episode 2 of Survivor 50, and — shameless plug alert!—
Dalton Ross,
Entertainment Weekly,
5 Mar. 2026
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Like, is Glem’s entire look intentionally paying homage to Franklin Sherman, the loopiest and possibly best supporting character from The Critic, or just a shameless rip-off?—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
20 Feb. 2026
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Far from a remorseless monster, April is a charismatic and deeply lonely woman.—
Ruth Madievsky,
The Atlantic,
21 Jan. 2026
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But the Iranian regime has a long and remorseless record, not only killing but maiming, notably with pellet blasts aimed into the eyes.—
Karl Vick,
Time,
12 Jan. 2026
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That’s the cruel beauty of golf.—
Mike Bianchi,
The Orlando Sentinel,
7 Mar. 2026
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Few Iranians will mourn the demise of the cruel and murderous Ayatollah Khamenei or his cohorts, and a large segment of Iranians want the corrupt religious regime gone.—
Trudy Rubin,
Twin Cities,
6 Mar. 2026
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“Unashamed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unashamed. Accessed 12 Mar. 2026.
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