sans gêne

alternative sans-gene · alternative sans gene · alternative sans-gêne

1. uncountableLack of constraint; brazenness; unreservedness (unabashed behavior, disregard for societal constraints)

   The rogue, like the artist and perhaps the gentleman, belongs to no class. He is not embarrassed by the sans gene of the hobo, nor put out of countenance by the etiquette of the prince.

   1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 46”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC

alternative sans-gene · alternative sans gene · alternative sans-gêne

1. not comparableWithout constraint, unembarrassed.

   Loolowcan was evidently at home among these compatriots, frowzier even than he. He squatted among them, sans gêne, and lighted his pipe. One of the ladies did the honors, and motioned me to a seat upon a rusty bear-skin.

   1853, Theodore Winthrop, The Canoe and the Saddle, chapter X