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unclothed

adjective

un·​clothed ˌən-ˈklōt͟hd How to pronounce unclothed (audio)
: not clothed

Examples of unclothed in a Sentence

Police found the victim's unclothed body in the woods. an artist's drawings of clothed and unclothed figures
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Though public nakedness isn’t completely gone, many of the everyday spots where Americans once encountered unclothed bodies—locker rooms, school showers, public pools, bathhouses—have either vanished or shifted away from collective nudity. Jacob Beckert, The Atlantic, 13 Nov. 2025 Several South Shore residents reported witnessing federal immigration agents forcibly removing unclothed children from apartments during the pre-dawn raid in Chicago. Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025 The man stands just beyond a vivid swirl of similarly unclothed American Indians with discolored bodies, a jarring imagining of the senseless violence and disease that ravaged the Ohlone people, who first settled in the coastal Northern California land that now comprises much of the Bay Area. Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 6 Sep. 2025 Woolf's remains were found unclothed and partially decomposed near the San Joaquin trailhead in Tucson in December 2024. Wren Smetana, AZCentral.com, 26 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for unclothed

Word History

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of unclothed was in the 14th century

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“Unclothed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unclothed. Accessed 27 Nov. 2025.

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