What's the difference between unabashed and unembarrassed?

Unabashed


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) She unabashedly referenced the Black Panthers, and made Black Power salutes, all while asserting her own cultural and ethnic identity.
  • (2) SJ Closs Edinburgh He is the Daffy Duck of politics – confident and self-satisfied, leading to calamity; then he pops up again, unabashed • As a fellow economist I fully endorse Larry Elliott’s demolition of Tory party assertions that all is well for the UK’s growing economy, and that Britain is paying its way ( The Tories’ ticking economic timebomb , 20 April).
  • (3) The proposal – an unabashed extension of the flagship Thatcherite right-to-buy policy – was a centrepiece of the Tory general election manifesto.
  • (4) The New Jersey governor, Chris Christie , is a “straight-out, unabashed pro-life candidate” who is contemplating a “hard, fighting campaign” against the “elites in Washington”, in order to free “the taxpayers of this country” from “the heavy foot of the federal government”.
  • (5) Yes, the Paris climate change conference can save the planet | Ed Miliband Read more The text we came up with was unabashedly radical, and it went on to be endorsed by more than 100 organisations.
  • (6) Particularly in London, when everyone is competing for your hard-earned capital to invest in their new location?” In some cases, place-making has meant going to extraordinary lengths: in poor parts of Harlem, estate agents bought up vacant street-front commercial properties and opened four trendy coffee shops , in an unabashed attempt to instigate gentrification themselves.
  • (7) Now we're talking full-blown, unabashed dictatorship."
  • (8) There is something marvellous, even monumental, about her honesty, the unabashed importance she attaches to every event: "I went to Paris for two days with my husband, determined while I was there to have my hair cut in a French salon.
  • (9) Poland, however, was "enslaved" by Moscow and he is unabashed about his purpose, lecturing British and Nato military officers about Poland's wartime past, about its home army, the biggest non-communist guerrilla movement in Europe fighting the Nazis.
  • (10) Unabashed, Foot sat down and was immediately eyed with suspicion.
  • (11) "Don't count on it any time soon," he says unabashed.
  • (12) Tsipras, an unabashed populist who counts Hugo Chávez among his heroes, has promised to renegotiate the painstakingly acquired bailout agreement Athens has signed with foreign lenders.
  • (13) Yes, in the year 2015 a living legend like Carrie Fisher – author, playwright, screenwriter and actor extraordinaire, as well as a brutally funny human being who has been unashamed and unabashed about her flaws and struggles – is still being told she isn’t good enough because of how she looks.
  • (14) Regime change was the unabashed objective of the White House, and by hitching himself to Washington with no get-out clause, Mr Blair effectively made that his policy too.
  • (15) Unabashed, the chancellor, George Osborne denied the IFS had described the Tory attack as misleading, and said the party’s figures “were based on what the Labour party has voted for in parliament.
  • (16) The unabashedly sexist gallery even features a familiar face: on slide seven is none other than the Chinese-speaking Australian reporter .
  • (17) He was an unabashed royalist, and made no secret of his pleasure in attending lunch at Buckingham Palace with the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh.
  • (18) Scullion later said it was “some of the most disturbing footage” he had ever seen and the behaviour of individual officers shown on Four Corners was “evil” and unabashed.
  • (19) They’re pretty unabashed about asking how much you pay in rent, your salary and marital status!
  • (20) De Blasio, an unabashed progressive who touts his Brooklyn roots, takes office at a crucial juncture for the city of 8.4 million people.

Unembarrassed


Definition:

  • (a.) Not embarrassed.
  • (a.) Not perplexed in mind; not confused; as, the speaker appeared unembarrassed.
  • (a.) Free from pecuniary difficulties or encumbrances; as, he and his property are unembarrassed.
  • (a.) Free from perplexing connection; as, the question comes into court unembarrassed with irrelevant matter.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Perhaps the contrast should now be recast as that between the constitution’s embarrassable and unembarrassable parts.
  • (2) "What it does, however, clearly prove is that he was aware that it was taking place in the press as a whole and that he was sufficiently unembarrassed by what was criminal behaviour that he was prepared to joke about it."
  • (3) What the ruling class rarely spells out is the underlying ideology; Borisconi is unembarrassable, so he does: you are poor because you are stupid.
  • (4) The biggest European clubs, prompted by the Premier League's early unembarrassed dash for cash, have begun more zealously to exploit football's global exposure and popularity, principally with massive sponsorship deals.
  • (5) The unembarrassable Mr Diamond is now trying to hang on as chief executive of Barclays as a whole.
  • (6) Ryan proved articulate and unembarrassable enough to give Kidron, and her camera, a guided tour of his world.
  • (7) Within his party, the story obviously did him no harm at all: in November 2010, he once again became Ukip's leader, and is now a firmly embedded part of the culture – an apparently unembarrassable, foghorn-voiced operator (some have likened his tones to those of Zippy from the 70s children's TV show Rainbow) who proudly smokes and enjoys a lunchtime pint of bitter, and who characterises his relations with the Tories as a matter of "war".
  • (8) In those days it was rare to find lesbian and gay books in mainstream shops and libraries, so seeing shelf upon unembarrassed shelf of queer books and magazines was an exhilarating experience, at once deeply emotional and thoroughly political.
  • (9) In fairness to Mr McDougall, whose effort has been subjected to sustained derision, many men south of the border view women with equally unembarrassed contempt.
  • (10) But no, the group around my table start unembarrassedly throwing around actual ideas: it's possibly why billionaires are billionaires, and chief executives are chief executives.
  • (11) Why does she show the voyeurs as totally unembarrassed, making no attempt to conceal their lust and intruding on Susannah’s space?
  • (12) This voice is the great formal invention of Hugo's novel - the support to the novel's length: a narrator who is unembarrassed by sententiae: sentimental interjections, melodramatic addresses to historical characters, one-word paragraphs, chains of adjectives linked only by their sound, characters who freeze into rants.
  • (13) You don't have to spend long in Farage's company to realise that he possesses that profoundly useful political weapon shared with Boris Johnson: he is unembarrassable.
  • (14) This is what he believes it would take to refashion the progressive mindset: the abandonment of argument by evidence in favour of argument by moral cause; the unswerving and unembarrassed articulation of what those morals are; the acceptance that there is no "middle" or third way, no such thing as a moderate (people can hold divergent views, conservative on some things, progressive on others – but they are not moderates, they are "biconceptual"); and the understanding that conservatives are not evil, unintelligent, cynical or grasping.
  • (15) He appeared to be shockingly unembarrassed as he said “If you want to know who to vote for, I'm the guy with the not bad looking daughters".

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