unawed
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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In Greece, they were unfazed by a formidable crowd and unawed by admirable opposition.
From BBC • Nov. 9, 2023
What other body would be likely to feel confidence enough in its own situation, to preserve unawed and uninfluenced the necessary impartiality between an individual accused, and the representatives of the people, his accusers?
From Salon • Dec. 23, 2019
Guo was pleased with the attention, though unawed.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 21, 2016
For his part, say his friends, Mr Soames is both unawed and unconceited about his grandfather, with whom he dimly recalls playing cowboys and Indians.
From Economist • Mar. 14, 2013
At once the hot-blooded young farmer, in a smock-frock showing many an earthy stain, interposed between his mother's faithful domestic and the steward, unawed by the gold lace or ruffles visible under the open riding-coat.
From The Making of William Edwards or The Story of the Bridge of Beauty by Banks, Mrs. G. Linnaeus
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