unblushing

American  

[uhn-bluhsh-ing] / ʌnˈblʌʃ ɪŋ /

adjective

1. showing no shame or remorse; shameless.

   an unblushing confession.

2. not blushing.

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unblushing British  

/ ʌnˈblʌʃɪŋ /

adjective

1. immodest or shameless

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Other Word Forms

• unblushingly
  adverb
• unblushingness
  noun

Etymology

Origin of unblushing

First recorded in 1585–95; un- ¹ + blush ( def. ) + -ing ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

Unblushing, the head of the Soviet Artists Union wrote the next day in Pravda that "for us, there are no forbidden themes and genres."

From Time Magazine Archive

Unblushing perfidy was practised by this Pope in his dealings with kings who were his religious subjects.

From Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation by Dau, W. H. T. (William Herman Theodore)

Defend yourself by rank and wealth, Plead beauty, virtue, youth, and health,-- Unblushing Death will ravish all; The world itself shall pass beneath his pall.

From Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Wright, Elizur

Unblushing impudence indeed!—Thus to ask the public to pervert the eternal principles of truth and justice by giving credit to such assertions as these.

From A Review and Exposition, of the Falsehoods and Misrepresentations, of a Pamphlet Addressed to the Republicans of the County of Saratoga, Signed, "A Citizen" by Elector, An

“Be bold, for number cancels bashfulness; Extremes, from which a King would blushing shrink, Unblushing senates act as no excess.”

From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Disraeli, Isaac