How to Use unashamed in a Sentence

unashamed

adjective
  • She was unashamed to tell the truth.
  • He is unashamed of his patriotism.
  • Her lyrics are so awesome and unashamed to be trans as well.
    Patrick Crowley, Billboard, 8 June 2018
  • But the women looked me dead in the eye – unflinching, strong, unashamed.
    Yasmin Lajoie, refinery29.com, 1 Dec. 2020
  • The PlayStation Classic is a copycat, and Sony seems largely unashamed by that fact.
    Nick Statt, The Verge, 8 Nov. 2018
  • They were spotted kissing in a park in the English city, completely unashamed of locking lips out in the open.
    Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 Sep. 2018
  • From the dinghy, the new arrivals observed that the man waving at them was naked and seemed entirely unashamed by his nakedness.
    Hermione Hoby, Harper's Magazine, 22 June 2021
  • The comedian is unabashed, unashamed, and bold in her challenges to the status quo.
    Clarkisha Kent, refinery29.com, 10 May 2021
  • The holidays are a time for unashamed decadence and that calls for a selection of rich desserts that capture the flavors and joy of the season.
    Sunset Staff, Sunset Magazine, 18 Dec. 2022
  • Picasso was a masculine type of glamour in her own way, a muse to Yves, and fiercely unashamed with her wardrobe.
    Allyson Portee, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2021
  • Thank you for riding with us, for your voices, your enthusiasm, your memes, your fart jokes, and your unashamed crazy.
    Nick Romano, EW.com, 17 Dec. 2019
  • Black fans appreciated him for his unashamed emotion for the hood.
    Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2021
  • The song set the tone for the night: to be unashamed, unfiltered and unapologetic about one’s experiences and feelings.
    Palak Jayswal, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Apr. 2022
  • All with the full and unashamed support—if not ungentle nudging—of Mayor Tommy Battle.
    Roy S. Johnson | Rjohnson@al.com, al, 15 July 2021
  • People who don’t want children should be proud and unashamed in living child-free, and people who want two should stop at two, and people who want five dogs should lead a barkful life.
    Mark Oppenheimer, WSJ, 24 Aug. 2018
  • These are women who like to have fun with their sexuality, don't take it too seriously, own it and are unashamed about their desires.
    Katie Walsh, chicagotribune.com, 19 July 2017
  • It’s a warts-and-all story that doesn’t paint over Picasso’s misogyny or his unashamed penchant for exploiting his fame for profit.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Sep. 2020
  • Now, Deidre can be a role model for lesbians unashamed of their sexuality.
    NBC News, 20 Apr. 2018
  • Meat lovers will be at home at Cannibale Royale, a brasserie dedicated to unashamed carnivores, with exotic beers and fine wines.
    Katja Brokke, CNN, 18 May 2017
  • Something in those shoulders and in the set of the neck, in the sign of unashamed age suggested by the unhidden bald spot, gave an impression of the unflappable calm that comes only by way of long-sustained excellence.
    Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 26 Apr. 2022
  • There’s Kiran Gandhi, who ran the London Marathon while free bleeding in order to encourage other women to be unashamed of their periods.
    Loren Savini, Allure, 27 June 2018
  • Going all the way back to his early appearances on Oprah’s show in 1988, he’s left a long trail of casual, unashamed bigotry that’s now permeated the fever dream of this Presidency.
    Esquire Editors, Esquire, 10 Jan. 2018
  • Instead, what the Jacksons served up was a dose of full-on, unashamed nostalgia — delivered with just enough sizzle to keep it from lapsing into outdated routine.
    Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 17 June 2018
  • Many of Grande’s songs are about self-actualization, and the unashamed consummation of certain lustful desires.
    Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 23 May 2017
  • Perhaps all long-running reality series need a person who’s not just fundamentally unashamed to be on camera but who in some sense needs to be.
    Daniel D'addario, Variety, 24 Nov. 2021
  • Erratic but engaging, going in and out of daring, the film’s mixture of black humor and unashamed sentimentality is not always as good as its best parts.
    Tribune News Service, cleveland, 30 Oct. 2019
  • Amid this partisan acceleration, Bloom pauses the process to re-instill unashamed love for American art into the culture.
    Nicholas Pompella, National Review, 21 Nov. 2020
  • The Australian actor Geraldine Viswanathan plays one of the three girls, Kayla, a straight-shooting, confident athlete who’s unashamed and unapologetic about her sexuality.
    Eliza Berman, Time, 5 Apr. 2018
  • This created a market for an unashamed champion of both economic and cultural Tory values.
    The Economist, 10 Apr. 2021
  • These were the years of Trumpism, of unashamed white-supremacist politics, of unending police brutality against Black people.
    Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 15 Nov. 2021

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'unashamed.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: