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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unabashed
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ "I'd love to go!" she said with unabashed enthusiasm.
unabashed enthusiasm
▪ Kendall is a nasty unabashed racist.
▪ Tyler is an unabashed fan of Hollywood glamour.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But even his ideological enemies sneakingly admire his unabashed aggression, a quality rare in a city of trimmers and dissemblers.
▪ He is a relentless, buoyant, unabashed seeker of publicity.
▪ He is tough-talking, opinionated, downright mean, an unabashed racist.
▪ Our landlord appeared quite unabashed chasing his goat out of the flower beds.
▪ Richard Tyler is an unabashed fan of Hollywood glamour as well.
▪ She was having dreams of unabashed sexuality.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unabashed

1570s, from un- (1) "not" + past participle of abash (v.). Related: Unabashedly.

Wiktionary
unabashed

a. 1 Not disconcerted or embarrassed. 2 (context of emotions, facts, actions etc. English) That are not concealed or disguised, or not eliciting shame.

WordNet
unabashed

adj. not embarrassed; "a tinseled charm and unabashed sentimentality"- Jerome Stone; "an unembarrassed greeting as if nothing untoward had happened" [syn: unembarrassed]

Usage examples of "unabashed".

Roman magistrate, even the most unabashed demagogue who ever called himself a tribune of the plebs!

He wanted her to meet his gaze levelly with honest, unabashed hunger, and say the words.

Longdong in Changyang county, Hubei Province, South China, has provided many authorities with a welcome opportunity for unabashed morphological dating.

And yet there were times when I could not help losing my temper when faced with certain obvious superstitions which he accepted unquestioningly with the most unabashed simplicity.

More seldom still did any dwelling betray evidence of inhabitation beyond faint wisps of smoke, like ghosts of famine, drifting from the chimneypots, or--perhaps--some unabashed exhibit of red flannel hung out to dry with wrist or ankle-bands nipped between a window-sash and sill.

So Miss Trent, unabashed, left her to her own devices, or (as she suspected) to the attentions of Mr Calver, and seized the opportunity to pay a call on Mrs Chartley, with a copy of the recipe for pickling white mushrooms tucked into her reticule.

He hadn't even looked at the Big Macs with such unabashed yearning.

The unabashed girl was meantime having sprightly talk with the casting director, whom she had hailed through the window as Countess.

Pam's unabashed shriek of amazement in the Hot Pot was worth all of that and more.

But if we see that these things are food for laughter and mere mockeries, and in good truth the fears of men and dogging cares dread not the clash of arms and cruel weapons, if unabashed they mix among kings and kesars and stand not in awe of the glitter from gold nor the brilliant sheen of the purple robe, how can you doubt that this is wholly the prerogative of reason, when the whole of life withal is a struggle in the dark?

As they passed through the gate, Nikolai regarded the warrior with unabashed wonder.

So Florian hurried Edge and Fitz along the circus's midway: a row of booths topped by canvas banners portraying, with unabashed exaggeration and artistic license, the attractions to be found within: La Dama Obesissima, Ercole il Potente, Il Ragazzo Pinguino.

Nat was aware that Eddie still considered himself an unabashed partisan of the Stearns administration and so, by definition, a natural enemy where John Chandler Simpson was concerned.

He was shaking his Captain's hand with unabashed enthusiasm, assuring himself of its unghostly reality.

He was shaking his Captain’s hand with unabashed enthusiasm, assuring himself of its unghostly reality.