Unabashed vs Flippant - What's the difference?
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Not disconcerted or embarrassed.
*1866 , ,
*:For the third time Allan looked at his lawyer. And for the third time his lawyer looked back at him quite unabashed .
*1919 , ",
*:Armed with her utter faith in the goodness she must stand unabashed before the arrogance that scoffs at the power of spirit.
That are not concealed or disguised, or not eliciting shame.
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*1920 , ,
*:; a balance not artfully calculated, as her tears and her falterings showed, but resulting naturally from her unabashed sincerity.
(archaic) glib; speaking with ease and rapidity
* Barrow
nimble; limber.
Showing disrespect through a casual attitude, levity, and a lack of due seriousness; pert.
* Burke
* 1998 , , The Metaphysical Touch
* 2000 , Anthony Howard and Jason Cowley, Decline and Fall, New Statesman, March 13, 2000
* 2004 , , The Easy Way to Stop Smoking , page 147
Unabashed is a related term of flippant.
As adjectives the difference between unabashed and flippant
is that unabashed is not disconcerted or embarrassed while flippant is (archaic) glib; speaking with ease and rapidity.unabashed
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Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* abashless, composed, poised, undaunted, unaffected, unshamed * abashless, barefaced, blatant, impudent, obvious, shameless, unrestrainedflippant
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Adjective
(en adjective)- It becometh good men, in such cases, to be flippant and free in their speech.
- a sort of flippant , vain discourse
- The conversations had grown more adult over the years—she was less flippant , at least.
- In the mid-1950s we both wrote for the same weekly, where her contributions were a good deal more serious and less flippant than mine.
- Our society treats smoking flippantly as a slightly distasteful habit that can injure your health. It is not. It is drug addiction.