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
The unabashed proclamation of championship aspirations.
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Ken Sugiura, AJC.com, 18 Apr. 2026
Her writing is an unabashed celebration of place, a home for motherhood, matrilineal struggle, kink, and the pastoral.
—Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Apr. 2026
Still, the sequel is an unabashed hit by any measure, having cost only $110 million to produce.
—Lindsey Bahr, Fortune, 13 Apr. 2026
Still, the sequel is an unabashed hit by any measure, having cost only $110 million to produce.
—ABC News, 12 Apr. 2026
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Ken Sugiura, AJC.com, 18 Apr. 2026
Her writing is an unabashed celebration of place, a home for motherhood, matrilineal struggle, kink, and the pastoral.
—Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Apr. 2026
Still, the sequel is an unabashed hit by any measure, having cost only $110 million to produce.
—Lindsey Bahr, Fortune, 13 Apr. 2026
Still, the sequel is an unabashed hit by any measure, having cost only $110 million to produce.
—ABC News, 12 Apr. 2026
See All Example Sentences for unabashed
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unabashed
Adjective
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Her confessional style is frank and unashamed about all of its possible fleshy or sticky causes.—
Emma Sarappo,
The Atlantic,
13 Mar. 2026
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Set the scene There’s a definitive vibe to Boudoir de Muses—one that’s romantic in an overt way, and unashamed of its provocative nature.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
24 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Subsequent photos showed the proud parents smiling in the audience as their daughter walked across the stage to collect her degree, Zahra alongside her friends in their graduation regalia and a glimpse at a family celebration.—
Madison E. Goldberg,
PEOPLE,
19 May 2026
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Paul McCartney is proud of the impact his music has on people.—
Christina Dugan Ramirez,
FOXNews.com,
18 May 2026
Adjective
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The Wendy Eisenberg of Wendy Eisenberg is newly unafraid of love songs, or at least unembarrassed by their proclamations.—
Jayson Greene,
Pitchfork,
9 Apr. 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
Adjective
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Unfortunately, the shameless tankers were our biggest winners from the lottery.—
John Hollinger,
New York Times,
10 May 2026
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Across its many subgenres, reality television is a format that contains multitudes, including competition, luxury, romance, aspirational support or instruction, scopophilia, pure escapism, and, at its most shameless (and sometimes, yes, gratifying), a heaping portion of schadenfreude.—
Todd Gilchrist,
IndieWire,
7 May 2026
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“Unabashed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unabashed. Accessed 20 May. 2026.
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