Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In an unblushing or shameless manner.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb In an unblushing manner, without shame, or shamelessly

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb without blushing

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word unblushingly.

Examples

  • On the stock market, the DPA's title unblushingly attributes the stock fall to political uncertainty.

    Archive 2008-10-01 Michael Turton 2008

  • I will throw a scarf over my head, though; not because I need it, "unblushingly," but because I have a lace one that is very becoming. "

    A Fair Barbarian Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886

  • A visitor to Boston noted in 1872 that there was “hardly a newspaper that does not contain their open and printed advertisements, or a drug store whose shelves are not crowded with nostrums publicly and unblushingly displayed.”

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • While the reform of history teaching so as to instil what Gove unblushingly calls "our island story" is to be led by the non-ideological celebrity scholar Simon Schama, it appears that the non-ideological revival of letters is to be led by Gove himself, wearing his FR Leavis hat.

    Only a sadist would inflict Dryden on our schoolchildren Catherine Bennett 2010

  • For the rest of the time he was happy to hang out with the hangers-on and unblushingly records regular visits to peer over the garden wall which enable him to tell us that in 1985 "the lawn was very green".

    Behind Closed Doors: The Tragic, Untold Story of the Duchess of Windsor by Hugo Vickers - review 2011

  • Mercedes was unblushingly candid when Saxon reproached her.

    CHAPTER VI 2010

  • Roosevelt Library, in Hyde Park, the author unblushingly places himself at the center of momentous historical forces.

    American Sketches Walter Isaacson 2009

  • He has zero connection with London (at least Boris has a long-standing claim to have worked there beyond his life as an MP), lives on an asteroid, is a would-be aging Lothario and backed each candidate for leadership of his party just in time for each of his choices to implode before moving quite unblushingly on to the next Nut Cutlet.

    Hello Cheeky! 2007

  • He has zero connection with London (at least Boris has a long-standing claim to have worked there beyond his life as an MP), lives on an asteroid, is a would-be aging Lothario and backed each candidate for leadership of his party just in time for each of his choices to implode before moving quite unblushingly on to the next Nut Cutlet.

    Archive 2007-07-29 2007

  • I do not lie about things of such cosmic importance ... they've booked a cow farm for a happening unblushingly to be known as RonStock.

    Election Central Morning Roundup 2009

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.