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abashingly en · ADV

Etymology

From abashing + -ly.

Meanings

1. 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

Synonyms

embarrassingly · bewilderingly · disconcertingly