abashingly

comparative more abashingly · superlative most abashingly

1. In an abashing manner.

   The letters were abashingly real. They brought the story […] back to its emotional source.

   1994, Janet Malcolm, The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes, New York: Knopf, Part 2, Chapter 5, p. 109

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   Considering that all this was her father’s, she felt abashingly out of place, most intrusive;

   1913, Henry Sydnor Harrison, chapter 28, in V.V.’s Eyes, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 396

   Synonyms: bewilderingly, disconcertingly, embarrassingly