unshrinkingly
- a word derived from shrink.
Example Sentences
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Dalvaby Jim Harrison This is a quintessential question from Harrison, a writer who confronts the human world as unshrinkingly as he confronts the natural world, and is often examining how the two fit together.
From The Guardian • May 17, 2012
“Then you'd better go to work quick, before some that I know of, who are enough sight better worth saving than you are, starve,” replied Abby, unshrinkingly.
From The Portion of Labor by Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins
Worth folded her hands on the gatepost and met his frowning gaze unshrinkingly.
From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904 by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)
Macaulay, on the other hand, unshrinkingly went through an immense mass of inquiry, which even he sometimes felt to be irksome, and which to most men would have been intolerable.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 by Various
The distinguishing features of the theological school to which Dr. Spring belongs are brought unshrinkingly forward, constituting as they do, in his opinion, vital and essential portions of the system of revealed religion.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 by Various
