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unabashed
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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.
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Etymology
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Adjective
unabashed (comparative {{{1}}}, superlative {{{2}}})|
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- Said of someone not disconcerted or embarrassed.
- 1866, Wilkie Collins, Armadale, Third book, Chapter V,
- For the third time Allan looked at his lawyer. And for the third time his lawyer looked back at him quite unabashed.
- 1919, Rabindranath Tagore, "Letter to M. K. Gandhi",
- Armed with her utter faith in the goodness she must stand unabashed before the arrogance that scoffs at the power of spirit.
- 1866, Wilkie Collins, Armadale, Third book, Chapter V,
- Said of emotions, facts, actions etc., that are not concealed or disguised, or not eliciting shame.
- 1871, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Chapter 34,
- […] , and when much privacy, elbowed in early life by unabashed vices, is apt to retire into extreme privacy, […]
- 1920, Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence, Chapter XXV,
- […] ; a balance not artfully calculated, as her tears and her falterings showed, but resulting naturally from her unabashed sincerity.
- 1871, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Chapter 34,
Synonyms
- (person: not disconcerted or embarrassed): composed, poised, undaunted, unaffected, unshamed
- (things: not concealed or disguised): barefaced, blatant, impudent, obvious, shameless, unrestrained
Translations
not disconcerted or embarrassed
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