bashful
adjective
uncomfortably diffident and easily embarrassed; shy; timid.
unbashful
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a word derived from
bashful.
Example Sentences
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By being gorgeous, healthy and utterly unbashful about her age, she made it O.K. for women to be 30 years old.
From Time Magazine Archive
With unbashful assertiveness the answers were 82.3% that the U.S. should be the chief designer of the peace and 59.7% that we will be.
From Time Magazine Archive
Everybody had been a hero, natch, and they were all very unbashful about admitting it.
From Four-Day Planet by H. Beam Piper
No one would have supposed her to be only ten years old, and her proud, demure, unbashful bearing helped to make her look older than she was.
From The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time by Emily Sarah Holt
Throughout all Milton’s works there may be discerned a vein of this noble egotism, this unbashful self-assertion.
From The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays by David Masson
