as in nude
the state of having no clothes on one's body
actors who don't turn down roles that call for nudity
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Recent Examples of nudity
The viewer never sees anything that graphic; there’s no Game of Thrones–style full-frontal nudity, though one does glimpse a generous amount of butt cheek.
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Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 13 Jan. 2026
The whole issue of award show expletives came to the Supreme Court twice, the last time in 2012, when the justices struck down fines on Fox Television Stations over expletives uttered by Cher and Nicole Richie during the Billboard Music Awards, as well as nudity that aired on ABC’s NYPD Blue.
—Peter White, Deadline, 11 Jan. 2026
Once the download is complete, Oh analyzes the images using a program designed to detect various forms of nudity or undress.
—Kevin Collier, NBC news, 9 Jan. 2026
The city’s storefront followers all saw the show as intense, non-linear, fanciful, Chicago-style experimentation with the de rigeur amount of nudity and a darkly comic soul, but no hope whatsoever of expanding its reach beyond the Midwest theatrical shoebox of its birth.
—Chris Jones, New York Daily News, 9 Jan. 2026
While the film — about a woman torn between two brothers — didn’t have anything that would qualify as nudity today, its scenes of Bardot undressing and dancing barefoot to African music scandalized viewers in France and America.
—Angelina Rascouet, Fortune, 28 Dec. 2025
The Florida Legislature outlawed full nudity at beaches, and the state then tried closing Haulover’s nude beach in 1994.
—Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 26 Dec. 2025
The removed files reportedly also show various works of art, including those containing nudity.
—Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 21 Dec. 2025
Make the bottom line and no frontal nudity.
—Literary Hub, 19 Dec. 2025
Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 13 Jan. 2026
The whole issue of award show expletives came to the Supreme Court twice, the last time in 2012, when the justices struck down fines on Fox Television Stations over expletives uttered by Cher and Nicole Richie during the Billboard Music Awards, as well as nudity that aired on ABC’s NYPD Blue.
—Peter White, Deadline, 11 Jan. 2026
Once the download is complete, Oh analyzes the images using a program designed to detect various forms of nudity or undress.
—Kevin Collier, NBC news, 9 Jan. 2026
The city’s storefront followers all saw the show as intense, non-linear, fanciful, Chicago-style experimentation with the de rigeur amount of nudity and a darkly comic soul, but no hope whatsoever of expanding its reach beyond the Midwest theatrical shoebox of its birth.
—Chris Jones, New York Daily News, 9 Jan. 2026
While the film — about a woman torn between two brothers — didn’t have anything that would qualify as nudity today, its scenes of Bardot undressing and dancing barefoot to African music scandalized viewers in France and America.
—Angelina Rascouet, Fortune, 28 Dec. 2025
The Florida Legislature outlawed full nudity at beaches, and the state then tried closing Haulover’s nude beach in 1994.
—Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 26 Dec. 2025
The removed files reportedly also show various works of art, including those containing nudity.
—Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 21 Dec. 2025
Make the bottom line and no frontal nudity.
—Literary Hub, 19 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nudity
nude
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Ofcom has launched an investigation into X over reports that the social media platform’s AI chatbot Grok is generating deepfake nudes of people without their consent, as well as sexualised images of children.—
The Week UK,
TheWeek,
13 Jan. 2026
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Gabrielle Union took us inside her recent trip to Kyoto, Japan—which included a hot spring soak in what appears to be the nude.—
Rachel Burchfield,
InStyle,
13 Jan. 2026
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“Nudity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nudity. Accessed 15 Jan. 2026.
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