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

And it's very in your face and bold and beautiful — it’s just unabashedly beautiful.

From Salon

These Jewish conservatives were especially attracted to the modern Republican Party's unabashedly pro-Israel stances, which put it in contrast with a Democratic Party whose humanitarian impulses caused occasional criticisms of Israel's atrocities.

From Salon

And I did unabashedly love to drink — Miraval rosé under the summer stars, mezcal margaritas on lazy Saturday afternoons, boozy Bloody Marys with scrambled eggs and croissants on Sunday mornings.

From Los Angeles Times

After every encounter he orchestrates as shy, wily “Sebastian,” he dutifully sits down at his desk to add yet another chapter to his work-in-progress novel: a story about an unabashedly confident sex worker called Sebastian.

From Los Angeles Times

As Stevens described it to me, the party whose candidates he helped to elect for decades has gone from being the nation’s “beating heart” of anti-communist opposition to being unabashedly “pro-Putin.”

From Los Angeles Times

Related Words

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