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unabashedly

American  
[uhn-uh-bash-id-lee] / ˌʌn əˈbæʃ ɪd li /

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.

Etymology

Origin of unabashedly

unabashed ( def. ) + -ly

Example Sentences

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“We cherish pleasure,” the authors write unabashedly, “and believe a politics without it will be unattractive, drab, listless, and doomed to failure.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

“It asks a lot of people to try to step into a world like this one,” the actor says of the unabashedly histrionic screenplay.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026

In a time where LGBTQ+ stories and diversity in Hollywood have plummeted, Heated Rivalry's breakout success has unearthed the hunger for not only an unabashedly queer story, but also a universally, endearingly human one.

From BBC • Feb. 26, 2026

And sure, maybe falling head-over-heels for something so unabashedly beige — so simple, so structurally unseduced by aesthetics — makes me a bit of a try-hard.

From Salon • Dec. 7, 2025

Quite unabashedly, in the sight of customers in the front room and the employees working with us, he would bow his head and pray for the answer.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

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