Meanings
adverbunshamefully (comparative more unshamefully, superlative most unshamefully)
comparative more unshamefully · superlative most unshamefully
- In an unshameful manner.
These women become "prudish" when their weight increases, but when skeletal feel that they can unshamefully display their bodies. Clearly, then, this is not a disease characterized by the desire to be attractive to others.
2017, Jeffery Sobal, Weighty Issues: Fatness and Thinness as Social Problems, page 148
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Germanic*un-
- Proto-West Germanic*un-
- Old Englishun-
- Middle Englishun-
- Englishun-
- Proto-Germanic*skamō
- Proto-West Germanic*skamu
- Old Englishsċamu
- Proto-Indo-European*pleh₁-
- Proto-Indo-European*pl̥h₁nós
- Proto-Germanic*fullaz
- Old Englishsċeomfull
- Middle Englishschameful
- Englishshameful
- Englishunshameful
- Englishunshamefully
From unshameful + -ly.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
APA
unshamefully. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unshamefully
MLA
“unshamefully.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unshamefully. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unshamefully,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unshamefully.
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