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Meaning of unafraidly | Babel Free

Adverb CEFR B2

Definitions

In an unafraid manner.

Examples

“He was, I should say, unafraidly conscious of his own lack, and he put back the finer thing when he might have grasped it, because he would not—and here he showed the nobler gleam—see its beauty suffer from an alien touch.”
“Not the least observance made he; not a minute stopped or stayed here, but, like Sulzer, unafraidly, perched upon the desk-top flat, perched there where the copper at his blotter calmly sat—a Lasiurus Pruinosus (which is Latin for a bat).”
“How long since they had taken hands and lightly, unafraidly, tripped along life’s path?”
“It was as his clear eyes looked steadily, unafraidly, into the angry steel ones of the man that his young face hardened, his warrior-chin took a firm set, and the light in his face was deadened by a stab of pain.”
“Give unafraidly, without counting the cost, except as you have the means and he who receives has need.”
“His topic was personal hygiene, and he unafraidly told the sex he was addressing that as a sex they had many virtues, but included among them was not the cleanliness of body that man is noted for.”
“For, when he was through, Margaret touched his hand of her own accord, touched it soothingly, unafraidly.”
“It is told with the consecutive details in orderly array, and through it all there is the idea implanted in Miss Verinder’s breast that scandal is a thing abhorred by the English of good family, hence she hides the details unafraidly loves through the many years lest an open attachment should ruin his fame.”
“What rancors the colonel is that Mr. Davis in his Sea Girt address directly and unafraidly denounced the invisible influence by name and called upon President Coolidge to do the same—which, by-the-way, he has not done.”
“This is a party government, and by all means party responsibility should always be placed where it belongs—directly and unafraidly upon the shoulders of the controlling party.”
“When leading Georgians become more frank with each other and seek to correct errors and weaknesses by first finding and unafraidly appraising them, then Georgia will come properly into her own.”
“I know the authorities of Habersham will do their full duty, unafraidly and without restraint as the circumstances may justify.”
“The thing to do is to remedy these weak points. That should be fundamental in any advertising campaign begun. We can remedy them only by first realizing their existence, frankly and unafraidly, and then by proceeding in a sane, sensible method to the work of elimination.”
“You are a wise counselor, unafraidly eyeing the future with the steady consciousness of safe moorings and well-beaten trails.”
“It is a welfare movement—made as openly and unafraidly as the appeals for the community chest to carry aid to the suffering of Atlanta—that deserves not only Catholic support but the support of every individual, who believes in the eternal justice, and Christ-like religion of the golden rule.”
“In other words, are we of this generation unafraidly frank or are we guilty of bad taste in submitting such questions as that put forth in the letter printed below?”
“And they chose the governor-elect as a man who would fairly represent all the people, unafraidly and with their best interests at heart.”
“Coming down to the particular portion of the south known as Florida, it can unafraidly be said that the republican party, as exemplified in the last two national administrations, has not been its friend.”
“MANSFIELD’s torso was now fully out over the ledge; his eyes stared unafraidly at the circular pit, which now looked so dreadfully close.”
“Let all who love freedom, suspect, question, and combat every attempt to restrict the spread of information. Already those who thrive by the suppression of truth are showing alarm. There is talk of danger for the young in looking unafraidly at facts.”
“It is a tale of birth, death, love, hate, mating—(treated unafraidly by both the author of the book and last night’s lecturer in his polished review)—of overbearing lords, of days of early American slavery, of economic conditions of early and later America, of the simpering dames of Napoleon’s period, and the passionate women of the luxurious and seductive age of the Roman Empire.”
“She was unafraidly frank, but never unkind.”
“He doesn’t use the orthodox forked limb in his snake-killing pursuits, but just takes an ordinary stick and unafraidly flays the reptile.”
“A rabbit hops and nibbles unafraidly in and out from the bushes.”
“In turn the men, now unafraidly speaking out loud about how the basement should be fitted up for attractiveness, awoke to why the women folks had “taken on so” about radiators—the room they required, their unattractiveness.”
“Meet your days courageously and tell unafraidly of your discoveries.”
“The little boy showed no fear of the iron man, of the helmet with its heavy plumes, but unafraidly stuck its tiny fingers into the eyes and nostrils of the mighty giant.”
“We must unafraidly call the world around to heed eternal ways, and find in the following of them eternal peace and consequently build on foundations that are abiding.”
“I used to think husbands snored maliciously, but now I feel that snoring is a true symbol of democracy. When I hear clear, strong snores unafraidly shaking the walls, I say to myself: “There is an American whose spirit is not shackled by dictatorship and secret police, who sleeps the loud, happy sleep of the brave and the free.””
“Those who follow Christ need a courage that comes only from God, courage to speak unafraidly against the abuses that everywhere prevail, courage to live and act in accordance with the commandments of God, courage which stems from the Bread of the Strong.”
“We could hear the birds, unconcerned about revealing their whereabouts, whistling unafraidly one to another.”
“It has been a long, long time since “we” (Evansville high school basketball) could walk unafraidly among the state’s net giants.”
“She stared unafraidly at her brother.”
“More, much more, space should be reclaimed from personal lives for all the unfair tax tricks that would never have been forced on us if the newspapers had unafraidly fought tax parasitism continuously as they did until World War II.”
“It makes no noise, the crickets and frogs are still unafraidly creaking and croaking in the dark.”
“Yet it can surely be said that he made his own luck and his own redoubtable reputation simply by being doggedly, unafraidly on the side of the people, regardless of the odds against him.”
“Like, also, the Vietnamese marine who, captured and asked to switch allegiance to the will-’o-the-wisp Vietcong government, unafraidly refused, stoically endured torture and calmly faced execution.”
“By the way, other executives and employees of his company had already interestedly and unafraidly expressed their reactions by participating in the study.”
“We need large-hearted, large-minded men and women at the United Nations, with vision not obscured by diplomat’s blinkers, men and women who can see the truth and act upon it unafraidly.”
“Sudhir had been unafraidly adventurous.”
“She glared down at the peaceful face of a three-year-old boy, who, finger in mouth, stared unafraidly back at her.”
“What this nation (or any nation) needs are leaders and citizens who believe their programs and ideas are for the common good, but still unafraidly say “I could be wrong.””
“The subjects which Human Nature unafraidly proposes to cover already have been staked out by Psychology Today, Natural History, Human Behavior and, to a lesser degree, Scientific American and Smithsonian.”
“California candy-store window, unafraidly naked garish conscious-subconscious Jack Barron day dream, sugarplum reality that money made real.”
“For so many nights and days, Fidel watched his child sleeping in that crib, with a joy, he attributed, unafraidly, to God s, God watching His creation in a ball of time.”
“Sloka 6.23 Nirvinna - Unafraidly cheerful.”
“If she is writing about husbands, lovers, mothers, fathers, children, other women … or directly about her inner world, to describe internal landscapes, writing her mind, her body, her senses, unafraidly, seeing in poetry an honest means of expressing her own private experiences, expressing the best way she can, from that burning in her groins to that kind of burning in her soul.”
““[…]Ostro unafraidly sought to find new impulses until so hastily and tragically his life was taken”.”
“Here is love poetry as I want it written, wish it to be written—love expressed haltingly, unafraidly, body and soul, love as sacrament and curse, a touching of pain’s raw nerves, each poem a homespun net of pain, love breathless, soundless, words withering inside the mouth, textural feel all over, sheer fluid texture, the joys however of unbodied love, bursting in all colors and details, the secret ecstasies of physical need and release, love overwhelming in whatever guise, contrasts finely juxtaposed and resolved: prayer and profanity, pardon and obloquy, predator and penitent…”
“Knowing it or he – so let’s just say he – was still there my eyes were unafraidly drawn evermore away panning over the mini wardrobe with all but a couple of things left on top to be packed away in the morning.”
“I listen to my argument being read through the court reader, me walking unafraidly and moving towards the Bar, and beginning my debate with a certain manner as I answer the court's inquiries with a sense of balance and maintaining my balance throughout and yet getting at the end of the day, being bombarded by difficult questions; completing the court's requirements and shaping them in my head how I speech; the tone of my speech; my expressions and so on.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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