sans gêne

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English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French sans gêne.

Noun

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sans gêne (uncountable)

  1. Lack of constraint; brazenness; unreservedness (unabashed behavior, disregard for societal constraints)

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Adjective

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sans gêne (not comparable)

  1. Without constraint, unembarrassed.
    • 1853, Theodore Winthrop, The Canoe and the Saddle, chapter X:
      Loolowcan was evidently at home among these compatriots, frowzier even than he. He squatted among them, sans gêne, and lighted his pipe. One of the ladies did the honors, and motioned me to a seat upon a rusty bear-skin.

French

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Adjective

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sans gêne (invariable)

  1. unembarrassed, brazen, shameless

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