unvarnished
IPA: ʌnvˈɑrnɪʃt
adjective
- Not having been coated with varnish (or a similar surface treatment).
- (figuratively, by extension) Natural, unmodified, unembellished, not exaggerated.
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Examples of "unvarnished" in Sentences
- What he called unvarnished and straight from the shoulder.
- But it’s critical the facts themselves remain unvarnished and undistorted.
- A plain unvarnished tale is preferable to the most highly ornamented narrative.
- This afternoon, President Bush turns to the Iraq War and wants being called the unvarnished assessment.
- There is a certain charm of _naiveté_, that recalls the unvarnished simplicity of the Italian painters before Raphael.
- We want you to see her unvarnished was his phrase for 90 minutes and then you can put Sarah Palin in context and see what people in Alaska liked about her.
- He once called himself a "traveller in the undiscovered country of the poor" and said his aim was to give "a literal description of the people's labour, their earnings, their trials, and their sufferings, in their own 'unvarnished' language."
- The recently released 2009 Best Places to Work in the Federal Government rankings provide this kind of unvarnished insight -- offering an important measure of agency management and leadership, and providing an alert system for signs of trouble and dysfunction.
- Little did she think, that, from among the poor and despised whom her tyranny was oppressing, there was one gradually being prepared, upon whose plain unvarnished words should follow consternating judgments, before which the pride of her dominion was to be laid level with the dust.
- Another part is that often those of us who are familiar with it don't realize how opaque that process can be, and another part is, as I've tried to point out, that economic models based on either "unvarnished" entertainment models or industrial models don't work, because publishing is truly a "mixed" business.
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