1
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
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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unashamed
Adjective
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Androgyny plays a factor in Martine Rose, while femininity is dissected through an unabashed use of color and volume in all of Christopher John Rogers’s collections.—
Cortne Bonilla,
Vogue,
21 Apr. 2025
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Despite the shoe’s unabashed newness, there’s also a touch of nostalgia.—
Naomi Rougeau,
Robb Report,
14 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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O’Neil had shown a more ruthless streak in dealing with Lemina, stripping the midfielder of the captaincy after those embarrassing post-match scenes at West Ham.—
Steve Madeley,
New York Times,
21 Apr. 2025
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There is the ruthless spymaster Luthen Rael (Stellan Skarsgård) and his mysterious assistant Kleya (Elizabeth Dulau).—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
21 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Christine Brown's 6 Children: All About Her Son and Daughters with Sister Wives Costar and Ex Kody Brown In December 2022, Christine shared a proud mom moment with her followers on Instagram, explaining how Truely stood up to a bully at school who was bothering her friend.—
Karli Bendlin,
People.com,
20 Apr. 2025
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Jaylon is a proud alumnus of the University of Georgia.—
Jaylon Thompson,
Kansas City Star,
20 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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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
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Yet in the years after World War II, many Germans were in varying degrees unrepentant, nationalistic or self-justifying.—
Gary J. Bass,
New York Times,
22 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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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
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The strippers are rock-star parts, gloriously unembarrassed, scene-stealers if ever there were any.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
20 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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Here are some tips for building out your career brand: Be shameless.—
Roberta Matuson,
Forbes.com,
9 Apr. 2025
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The hedge funders and other Wall Street vultures who are now, all of a sudden, all about protectionism are especially shameless.—
John W. Dean,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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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
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Luxury has risen to prominence thanks to remorseless future-looking innovation, never by recooking the creations of the past.—
Stéphane JG Girod,
Forbes.com,
9 Apr. 2025
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But this is the cruel and unreasonable state of this Administration's deportation policy.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Apr. 2025
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Such evidence could support the view that incessant loud noise amounts to torture or cruel treatment towards cetaceans, in turn galvanizing support for a new right to be free from such harm.—
David Gruber,
Time,
24 Apr. 2025
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“Unashamed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unashamed. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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