How to Use unembarrassed in a Sentence

unembarrassed

adjective
  • The passions are big and unembarrassed.
    — Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
  • 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
  • The strippers are rock-star parts, gloriously unembarrassed, scene-stealers if ever there were any.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Hrabal’s characters have always been hungry animals, unembarrassed in the face of blood and guts.
    — Becca Rothfeld, The New Yorker, 19 Nov. 2019
  • Wilt, being unembarrassed and unashamed of his own desires, created an environment where other stars were able to demand their share of the pie.
    — Corbin Smith, Rolling Stone, 15 July 2023
  • 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
  • Tokarczuk is baggy, profuse, and unembarrassed about being either.
    — Jake Bittle, The New Republic, 2 Mar. 2022
  • The novel runs on that energy — heady, unembarrassed joy; the dork sublime — and, in particular, the high of finding a kindred spirit.
    — Sophia Nguyen, Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2023
  • The through line in all this is an austere aesthetic of unembarrassed domination that is also somehow insecure in its flashiness.
    — James Folta, Literary Hub, 10 Dec. 2025
  • The way Skye nestles her head into the crook of her brother’s neck or drapes herself across his legs after an unembarrassed display of grief is ineffably moving.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 31 Aug. 2025
  • The Wendy Eisenberg of Wendy Eisenberg is newly unafraid of love songs, or at least unembarrassed by their proclamations.
    — Jayson Greene, Pitchfork, 9 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • Domingo replies, practically batting his eyelashes, unembarrassed to ask me to expand on my compliment.
    — Selome Hailu, Variety, 20 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • The most prominent bankers in the country were unembarrassed to defend the practice by arguing that if the common person can buy a refrigerator on credit, why not a stock?
    — Evan Hughes, The Atlantic, 20 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • More significant was its unembarrassed youthfulness, its update of the ballet-in-sneakers tradition.
    — The New York Times, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2017
  • The mother took him in, pitying his orphan status and appreciating his straightforward manners, neither servile nor presumptuous, but respectful and unembarrassed and warm.
    — Daniyal Mueenuddin, New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2025
  • In both economic and social relations, the pursuit of private advantage is increasingly unconcealed and unembarrassed.
    — Jeffrey Collins, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2018
  • His light, slurring, hornlike, Al Green-ish singing now melted into the rest of his watery compositions, making the lyrics hard to hear but his great reservoir of unembarrassed feeling impossible to miss.
    — Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2025
  • In Study 1, participants watched an embarrassed or unembarrassed confederate dancing to music while either remaining objective or engaging in perspective-taking.
    — Ncbi Rofl, Discover Magazine, 12 Dec. 2011
  • 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
  • Its unembarrassed religiosity and warmly asserted Christianity were beautiful, and refreshing.
    — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 6 Dec. 2018
  • Exultant Republicans are claiming vindication for their unembarrassed support of Israel’s merciless military strategy.
    — Robert Grenier, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018

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