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[Wilson Gray]

> Langston Hughes used it in his autobiography.

But _how_ did he use it?

"Finally, Nichan asked me abashedly if perhaps I would lend him a hew
hundred rubles."

On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 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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> Dennis C. During
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
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