abashingly en · ADV
Etymology
From abashing + -ly.
Meanings
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In an abashing manner.
The letters were abashingly real. They brought the story […] back to its emotional source.
1994, Janet Malcolm, The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes, New York: Knopf, Part 2, Chapter 5, p. 109:Considering that all this was her father’s, she felt abashingly out of place, most intrusive;
1913, Henry Sydnor Harrison, chapter 28, in V.V.’s Eyes, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 396:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more abashingly | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most abashingly | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |