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[Jonathan Lighter]

And did he say "abaSHEDly"?

JL

On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 3:44 PM Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> > 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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