unabashedly

[ uhn-uh-bash-id-lee ]

adverb

1. without apology, embarrassment, or defensiveness; unashamedly:

   They look at Social Security and Medicare with enormous gratitude, and unabashedly admit that they don't know how they'd survive without that help.

Word History and Origins

Origin of unabashedly¹

unabashed ( def ) + -ly

Example Sentences

This is interesting, told in an unabashedly forward manner as author Paula Stone Williams resists minimizing her male past.

From Washington Blade

Instead, I felt gratitude to be around people who not only cared, but expressed their dedication unabashedly.

From Time

It Didn’t Have to Be This WayMany Hindi- and English-language news channels, as well as regional news outlets, are unabashedly pro-Modi.

From Time

The author makes her case with an assortment of unabashedly heartwarming tales culled from the scientific literature, as well as more popular mediums like news reports, YouTube videos and TED talks.

From Washington Post

She is financially independent, seemingly unmarried and unabashedly assertive.

From Washington Post

“He has one of the most unabashedly pro-life records as anybody in the field,” said Mackowiak.

From The Daily Beast

The well in which he unabashedly dips back into over and over is that of Picasso.

From The Daily Beast

“This Is What An Unabashedly Pro-Obamacare Looks Like” shouted Talking Points Memo.

From The Daily Beast

At two and a half hours, Beautiful sails by quickly—one non-confrontational, unabashedly pop, drop of ear candy follows another.

From The Daily Beast

He might have had an extraordinary instinct, but he was unabashedly instrumentalist.

From The Daily Beast

Related Words

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• readily
• simply
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