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- adjective Not
squeamish .
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Examples
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With a minimum of psychobabble and a maximum of tight-focus unsentimental and unsqueamish reporting, Mr. Bergner tells the story of four people with “abnormal” sex lives: a foot fetishist, a dominatrix, a man obsessed with his stepdaughter and a man sexually attracted to amputees.
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The unsqueamish French duly reintroduced the offending words in translation.
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It is an expression so honest, so free from cant, so exactly corresponding with its subject, so unsqueamish and hearty, so manly, that it is to be accepted like a bit of nature.
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He sees the soul of the German as a dirty soul, unclean, unsqueamish.
The World Decision Robert Herrick 1903
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The hand and arm the woman inserts inside the heated jar is wrapped with old rags and frequently dipped in a jar of water standing by to keep it cooled; the bread thus baked tastes very good when fresh, but it requires a stomach rendered unsqueamish by dire necessity to relish it after seeing it baked.
Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama Thomas Stevens 1894
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It is astonishing that men like Ascham, [59] unless blinded by a survival of mediæval or a foreshadowing of Puritan prudery, should have failed to see that the morality of the _Morte d'Arthur_ is as rigorous as it is unsqueamish.
The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) George Saintsbury 1889
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Blissfully ignorant of the existence or presence of microbes, germs, and bacteria, our sturdy and unsqueamish forbears drank contentedly in succession from a single vessel, which was passed from hand to hand, and lip to lip, around the board.
Home Life in Colonial Days Alice Morse Earle 1881
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Blue Nights let us see something that readers aren't often allowed to see: a writer calling her own choices into question, a relentless cultural critic turning an unsqueamish eye on her own life.
Slate Articles Slate Staff 2011
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Salisbury and Thatcher as true-blue Conservatives, come top: "Both were notably unsentimental and unsqueamish, and unfashionably high principled, imbued with strategic sense and common sense, and possessed of a hardness of mind and harshness of speech that people respected but found off-putting."
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Telegraph Staff 2011
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Those who govern must be unsqueamish enough to tolerate this; and honest enough to explain.
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