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  • adjective Without fear. Not awed

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  • adjective not awed

Etymologies

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un- +‎ awed

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Examples

  • But at front and rear, unawed and indomitable, toiled the two men who were not yet dead.

    The Trail of Meat 2010

  • Plus totally unawed by the Hollywood A-Lister playing at left-back for England.

    England Under-19 1-3 Spain Under-19 - as it happened 2010

  • There will be cameras on hand there, too, but terrorists unawed by Arafat's ferociously mustached troops are unlikely to be swayed by a communique.

    Israel At War 2008

  • Now a little half-grown black and white cat squeezed herself through the bars of the iron gate and came purring lovingly about us, unawed by the time or the place, unimpressed by the marble pomp that sepulchers a line of mighty dead that ends with a great author of yesterday and began with a sceptered monarch away back in the dawn of history, more than twelve hundred years ago ....

    Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

  • Their young voices rang high, unawed by a sight that had daunted warriors.

    Genesis ANDERSON, Poul 2000

  • The men stared back at him, unawed and unpersuaded.

    Dead Man’s Walk Larry McMurtry 1995

  • The men stared back at him, unawed and unpersuaded.

    The Lonesome Dove Series Larry McMurtry 1995

  • Her voice was its usual unawed self, as if Jumping space horses was something she did every week.

    Warhorse Zahn, Timothy 1990

  • They viewed all my efforts with healthily unawed wit and baldly critical eyes.

    CLEAR PICTURES REYNOLDS PRICE 1988

  • They viewed all my efforts with healthily unawed wit and baldly critical eyes.

    CLEAR PICTURES REYNOLDS PRICE 1988

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