It's the Word of the Day podcast for November 26th.
Today's word is unabashed, spelled U-N-A-B-A-S-H-E-D.
Unabashed is an adjective.
Someone who is unabashed is not embarrassed or ashamed about openly expressing strong feelings or opinions.
Here's the word used in a sentence from the LA Times.
Take the melodramatic storyline of a telenovela and tell it through the unabashed mediums of opera and drag,
and you'll have Enebria Mi, the subversive experimental opera by San Cha,
ending its West Coast tour at Redcat this month.
Latin dance fuses with queer storytelling as the sounds of punk, classical,
and electronic make up the performance which pulls from creator Sancha's 2019 album La Luz de la Esperanza.
To abash someone is to shake up their composure or self-possession,
as illustrated by Charlotte Bratti in her 1849 novel Shirley with these words,
When you are unabashed, you make no apologies for your behavior,
nor do you attempt to hide or disguise it.
But when you are abashed, your confidence has been thrown off,
and you may feel rather inferior or ashamed of yourself.
English speakers have been using the word abashed to describe feelings of embarrassment
since the 14th century,
but they have only used unabashed, brazenly or otherwise, since the 15th century.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.