un|blink|ing

un|blink|ing
un|blink|ing «uhn BLIHNG kihng», adjective.
1. not blinking; remaining open: »

I can still see Mama watching him, her hand pressed tight across her mouth, her eyes wide and unblinking (Atlantic).

2. Figurative. without flinching or wavering; steady: »

He looks over his twelve Caesars, from Julius to Domitian, with a methodical eye, unblinking in the face of some of the most outrageous spectacles in history (Newsweek).

3. Figurative. forthright; candid: »

an unblinking study of two wild days in the dull, woolly middle-class lives of Mark and Antonia Painton (New Yorker).

un|blink´ing|ly, adverb.

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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