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[Mark Mandel]

What's the proportion of correct usage to usage as = "unabashedly"?

 (Question) Mark


On Tue, Oct 16, 2018, 11:22 AM Dennis During <dcduring at gmail.com> wrote:

> Google NGrams shows that *abashedly* occurs with less than 2% of the
> frequency of *unabashedly.*  But it has apparently been around at least
> since the early 19th century.  Langston Hughes used it in his
> autobiography. See entry at Wiktionary
> <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/abashedly#English> for more.
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