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UNASHAMED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does unashamed mean?
• UNASHAMED (adjective)
The adjective UNASHAMED has 1 sense:
1. used of persons or their behavior; feeling no shame
Familiarity information: UNASHAMED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Used of persons or their behavior; feeling no shame
Similar:
audacious; bald-faced; barefaced; bodacious; brassy; brazen; brazen-faced; insolent (unrestrained by convention or propriety)
shameless; unblushing (feeling no shame)
unabashed; unembarrassed (not embarrassed)
Also:
impenitent; unremorseful; unrepentant (not penitent or remorseful)
Antonym:
ashamed (feeling shame or guilt or embarrassment or remorse)
Context examples
How else shall we go back unashamed to our women?
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A subdued impassioned murmur was audible in the room beyond and Miss Baker leaned forward, unashamed, trying to hear.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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