unembarrassing love

Definitions

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  • adjective Not embarrassing.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ embarrassing

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Examples

  • I had thought $200,000 sounded like a large and unembarrassing number.

    Why I Fired My Broker 2009

  • I had thought $200,000 sounded like a large and unembarrassing number.

    Why I Fired My Broker 2009

  • To attempt a novel modeled on "War and Peace" is easy; to write one that is unembarrassing by comparison is not.

    Big days for big books 2007

  • To attempt a novel modeled on "War and Peace" is easy; to write one that is unembarrassing by comparison is not.

    A Different Stripe: 2007

  • I found him a most unusually comfortable and unembarrassing Englishman.

    Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

  • The shabby, violent-coloured place encompassed him like an easy garment, and the lady, with her feet tucked up in a sofa and a cushion under her tumbled head, was an unembarrassing invitation to the kind of happy things he had not said for years.

    Hilda A Story of Calcutta Sara Jeannette Duncan

  • Albert himself might have objected to any emotional expression that was too clearly to be seen; but he would have welcomed one which, cloaked in an unembarrassing obscurity, might at least have been felt.

    On the Stairs Henry B. Fuller

  • They are too shy to ask, and no one ever tells them about it in a business-like and unembarrassing way.

    The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day Evelyn Underhill 1908

  • The point is that in the only way now possible the poet has been brought into a situation in which reading verse aloud seems a natural unembarrassing thing, a normal exchange between man and man: also he has been led to think of his work as SOUND rather than as a pattern on paper.

    Collected Essays 1900

  • Then the millionaire began to talk of engaging a secretary, for his millions were beginning to make themselves troublesome; and he begged Tinker, since he had found him so unembarrassing a valet, to keep his eyes about him for a secretary also; but Tinker said that Monte Carlo was no place to find secretaries who understood business.

    The Admirable Tinker Child of the World Edgar Jepson 1900

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