Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not embarrassed, in any sense.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Not embarrassed.
  • adjective Not perplexed in mind; not confused; as, the speaker appeared unembarrassed.
  • adjective Free from pecuniary difficulties or encumbrances.
  • adjective Free from perplexing connection; as, the question comes into court unembarrassed with irrelevant matter.

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  • adjective Not embarrassed

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  • adjective not embarrassed

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Examples

  • At the same time, I would say that European SF gives its readers a kind of unembarrassed romanticism that's different in tone from what you'll typically find in Asimov's or a Year's Best anthology.

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  • I love the unembarrassed sensuality/sexuality of it.

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  • In turning our backs on all aspects of religion, we allow it to claim as its exclusive dominion areas of experience that should rightly belong to all mankind – and that we should feel unembarrassed about reappropriating for the secular realm.

    An atheist at Christmas: Oh come all ye faithless 2011

  • Leary states that "even with the best intentions, ruin photography cannot help but exploit a city's misery"; he defines some elements of 'ruin porn' as "the exuberant connoisseurship of dereliction; the unembarrassed rejoicing at the 'excitement' of it all, hastily balanced by the liberal posturing of sympathy for a 'man-made Katrina.'"

    Ian Ference: On 'Ruin Porn' Ian Ference 2011

  • Maybe one of the greatest albums ever, and we are completely unembarrassed to tell you that Nine Inch Nails opening for David Bowie at the Seattle Center in 1995 (we are a LOT older than you think we are, y'all) is to this day one of the best live shows we have ever seen.

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  • Their white teeth split their faces into wide and unembarrassed grins.

    Between Expectations Md Meghan Maclean Weir 2011

  • But then good big sisters are supposed to be generous and indulgent, and perhaps this unembarrassed eagerness to talk up each other's talent is one of the advantages of working with family.

    The famous Fiennes 2011

  • Then, gradually, the drug overwhelmed her and she drifted into unconsciousness once again, unaware and unembarrassed that when she lost control of her mind, she also lost control of her bladder.

    Fatal Error J.A. Jance 2011

  • Their white teeth split their faces into wide and unembarrassed grins.

    Between Expectations Md Meghan Maclean Weir 2011

  • Maybe one of the greatest albums ever, and we are completely unembarrassed to tell you that Nine Inch Nails opening for David Bowie at the Seattle Center in 1995 (we are a LOT older than you think we are, y'all) is to this day one of the best live shows we have ever seen.

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