unabashed

comparative more unabashed · superlative most unabashed

1. Not disconcerted or embarrassed.

   For the third time Allan looked at his lawyer. And for the third time his lawyer looked back at him quite unabashed.

   1866, Wilkie Collins, Armadale, Third book, Chapter V

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   Armed with her utter faith in the goodness she must stand unabashed before the arrogance that scoffs at the power of spirit.

   1919, Rabindranath Tagore, Letter to M. K. Gandhi

   Synonyms: abashless, composed, poised, unaffected, undaunted, unshamed

2. Of actions, emotions, facts, etc.: that are not concealed or disguised, or not eliciting shame.

   [...]; a balance not artfully calculated, as her tears and her falterings showed, but resulting naturally from her unabashed sincerity.

   1920, Edith Wharton, “Chapter XXV”, in The Age of Innocence

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   [G]oodness is of a modest nature, easily discouraged, and when much privacy, elbowed in early life by unabashed vices, is apt to retire into extreme privacy, [...]

   1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter XXXIV, in Middlemarch […], volume II, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book IV, page 180

   As much about the singer-songwriter’s life now as then, “In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon” is an unabashed celebration of musical genius that’s at its best when looking back.

   2024 March 15, Brian Lowry, “‘In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon’ will leave you feeling groovy”, in CNN

   Synonyms: abashless, barefaced, blatant, impudent, obvious, shameless, unrestrained