How to Use unembarrassed in a Sentence

unembarrassed

adjective
  • Field, the eldest of three daughters, is cheerfully unembarrassed about wanting to inherit her father’s right to stand for election in the House of Lords.
    Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 14 Nov. 2020
  • There’s nothing at all wrong with a shameless movie, a picture built for pure entertainment and wholly unembarrassed about it.
    Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 20 Dec. 2017
  • There’s a lush, buxom, unembarrassed history of men believing that the failures of their own lives are the fault of women — a fate handed down from on high, for many people, by the story of our creation.
    K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 20 May 2022
  • Kennedy conceived of the arts as an arena of excellence, and he was unembarrassed by terms like greatness, civilization and the human spirit.
    Washington Post, 3 Sep. 2021
  • Hrabal’s characters have always been hungry animals, unembarrassed in the face of blood and guts.
    Becca Rothfeld, The New Yorker, 19 Nov. 2019
  • This is not new, except for the way an unembarrassed opportunism has been enshrined among the laws of nature and has flourished destructively in the near absence of resistance or criticism.
    Marilynne Robinson, The New York Review of Books, 11 June 2020
  • Cruise is our last movie star, a fanatical entertainment machine, a no-days-off nation-state of unembarrassed charisma.
    Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 27 May 2022
  • Western countries don’t have this type of leadership anymore: unembarrassed, defiant belief in a cause.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Mar. 2022
  • There are certainly other performers who emerge unembarrassed — Dench does a lovely turn from foolishness into new wisdom, for instance.
    Helen Shaw, Vulture, 24 Mar. 2021
  • Tokarczuk is baggy, profuse, and unembarrassed about being either.
    Jake Bittle, The New Republic, 2 Mar. 2022
  • The story’s key emotional arc involves Scott and his estranged daughter, Kate (Ella Purnell), who insists on joining the mission in a contrived subplot that nonetheless generates moments of raw, unembarrassed emotion.
    Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2021
  • More significant was its unembarrassed youthfulness, its update of the ballet-in-sneakers tradition.
    The New York Times, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2017
  • As a novelist, Doerr is utterly unembarrassed by statement.
    James Wood, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2021
  • In both economic and social relations, the pursuit of private advantage is increasingly unconcealed and unembarrassed.
    Jeffrey Collins, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2018
  • Its unembarrassed religiosity and warmly asserted Christianity were beautiful, and refreshing.
    Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 6 Dec. 2018

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