abashingly
English
Etymology
abashing + -ly
Adverb
abashingly (comparative more abashingly, superlative most abashingly)
- In an abashing manner.
- Synonyms: bewilderingly, disconcertingly, embarrassingly
- 1913, Henry Sydnor Harrison, V.V.’s Eyes, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, Chapter 28, p. 396,
- Considering that all this was her father’s, she felt abashingly out of place, most intrusive;
- 1994, Janet Malcolm, The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes, New York: Knopf, Part 2, Chapter 5, p. 109,
- The letters were abashingly real. They brought the story […] back to its emotional source.