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Recent Examples of unashamed From last year's stunt of audience members throwing garbage at the runway models to this season's rebellious attitude, this label is all about creating noise and being unashamed of it. Jeetendr Sehdev, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2024 Young people who had money were unashamed about it. Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024 That personality is London — unashamed, unabashed, and unafraid. Jack Francis, Rolling Stone, 15 Oct. 2023 Barbie ends on a high note as an unashamed Barbie (Margot Robbie) puts her reproductive health first. Vulture, 24 July 2023 See All Example Sentences for unashamed
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Adjective
  • That fateful connection would snowball into a lifelong friendship and artistic partnership that thrives on curiosity, trust and unabashed eccentricity.
    Isabela Raygoza, Billboard, 30 Apr. 2025
  • The song, like the album, is an unabashed rebuke of Israel-U.S. relations and America’s overall warmongering.
    Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 29 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Wes Anderson is talking about a surreal moment that occurs early in his latest film, The Phoenician Scheme, in which the protagonist, the ruthless international tycoon Zsa-Zsa Korda (Benicio del Toro), experiences a vision of the afterlife.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 18 May 2025
  • Ralph Fiennes will play the ruthless Panem dictator in director Francis Lawrence‘s forthcoming film in the franchise, The Hollywood Reporter has learned exclusively.
    Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 16 May 2025
Adjective
  • In the next round that year, Boston lost Game 6 at home to the Heat before knocking out Jimmy Butler and his proud team by capturing Game 7 in Miami.
    Jay King, New York Times, 15 May 2025
  • Jaylon is a proud alumnus of the University of Georgia.
    Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 15 May 2025
Adjective
  • This is not an argument for more unrepentant violence and general bloodthirstiness on television, where women are still too often faceless victims in crime/horror dramas.
    Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2025
  • Clips of the media furor that resulted can be seen in the trailer for Dinner Time, and in the actual clip, Wolf remains unrepentant — a point of pride for ride-or-die stand-up comics.
    Frank DiGiacomo, Billboard, 24 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Del Rey’s feathery croon was totally wrong for the song, which calls for an unembarrassed quality that’s not part of her whole deal.
    Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2025
  • Who better, then, to pry Eve loose than a rangy, rakish music journalist (Benjamin Bratt) whose game includes unironic hat-wearing and — like a dispiriting number of men in his age bracket — the unembarrassed deployment of Stephen Stills lyrics?
    Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Meanwhile, the only truly happy artist in Ira’s friend group — played to uproarious perfection by Stanley Tucci — isn’t even much of an artist at all but a shameless name-dropper who seems to stumble into constant success without even trying.
    Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 9 May 2025
  • The suit also paints a clownish portrait of the entrepreneur, portraying him as pompous, shameless, and untrustworthy.
    Rachel Corbett, Vulture, 16 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Two months after the split, Trippie appeared remorseless on X, formerly known as Twitter.
    Mackenzie Cummings-Grady, Billboard, 15 Apr. 2025
  • Value-form theory, as it’s often called, pays less attention than prior incarnations of Marxism did to the fission between labor and capital contained in the atom of the capitalist commodity, and stresses instead that both capitalists and workers must obey the same remorseless economic law.
    Benjamin Kunkel, Harpers Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Scheifele’s emotional and inspirational decision to play mere hours after his father’s unexpected death — to play for his dad, to play because of his dad — ended in cruel fashion, with Scheifele helpless in the penalty box.
    Mark Lazerus, New York Times, 18 May 2025
  • At first the program seems to be benign, but Hayakawa’s film steadily reveals how the policy thrives on the cruel capitalist tenet that people are disposable.
    Lovia Gyarkye, HollywoodReporter, 17 May 2025

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