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The term "unabashedly" functions as an emphatic adverb that enhances a speaker’s forthrightness and assertiveness in various narrative contexts. It is often used to underscore a character's willing audacity or unabated candor in revealing their thoughts or actions, as seen when a narrator delivers a particularly risqué wink [1] or when a character openly expresses admiration without remorse [2]. In dialogue, the word punctuates statements to reveal both confidence and a touch of irreverence, whether it's in recounting a personal story at a hacker conference [3] or in volunteering boasts about past exploits [4]. Furthermore, it lends a formal and sometimes self-referential tone to pronouncements of acquaintance or confession [5] and [6], while also providing a vehicle for ironic commentary on societal expectations [7].
  1. she concluded, with her largest and most unabashedly vulgar wink.
    — from Miss Million's Maid: A Romance of Love and Fortune by Berta Ruck
  2. Openly and unabashedly Dr. Harland gloried in her.
    — from May Iverson's Career by Elizabeth Garver Jordan
  3. "There's a hacker conference that I was invited to," Scott said unabashedly.
    — from Terminal Compromise by Winn Schwartau
  4. "I called on 'em the other night," volunteered Freddy Pratt, unabashedly.
    — from The Cliff-Dwellers: A Novel by Henry Blake Fuller
  5. "That was Mrs. Annandale," he announced unabashedly, "a very old friend of mine.
    — from The Perfume of Eros: A Fifth Avenue Incident by Edgar Saltus
  6. I only lasted a little while—I confess it unabashedly—if there is such a word as unabashedly—and if there isn't then I con
    — from Cobb's Bill-of-Fare by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb
  7. Oh, woman’s privilege of saying unabashedly the thing which is not!
    — from The Continental DragoonA Love Story of Philipse Manor-House in 1778 by Robert Neilson Stephens

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