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Recent Examples of seminude
That image, Dreijer said in a recent Pitchfork interview, was influenced by a seminude self-portrait of the 79-year-old Norwegian figurative painter Odd Nerdrum.
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Lindsay Zoladz, New York Times, 10 May 2023
Investigators also found a trove of photos depicting nude and seminude young women and girls.
—Fox News, 11 Aug. 2019
An Ohio strip club law prohibits patrons from touching a nude or seminude dancer unless the patron is a member of the dancer's immediate family.
—Author: Samantha Schmidt, Anchorage Daily News, 12 July 2018
The resulting seminude image, with an earnest, bead-draped Joplin standing with her hands positioned over her groin, became a defining photo of the singer when it was published in Rolling Stone after Joplin’s death in 1970.
—Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2017
Lindsay Zoladz, New York Times, 10 May 2023
Investigators also found a trove of photos depicting nude and seminude young women and girls.
—Fox News, 11 Aug. 2019
An Ohio strip club law prohibits patrons from touching a nude or seminude dancer unless the patron is a member of the dancer's immediate family.
—Author: Samantha Schmidt, Anchorage Daily News, 12 July 2018
The resulting seminude image, with an earnest, bead-draped Joplin standing with her hands positioned over her groin, became a defining photo of the singer when it was published in Rolling Stone after Joplin’s death in 1970.
—Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for seminude
Adjective
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The images, which the group said included topless pictures of minor girls, appear to be more extreme than recent reports that Grok had created images of children in revealing clothing and sexualized scenarios.—
David Ingram,
NBC news,
8 Jan. 2026
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Paltrow showed off her home sauna on Instagram in 2019, posting a photo in which she was seen topless with a pair of black bikini bottoms while lying on a wooden bench under red lights.—
Ashley Hume,
FOXNews.com,
1 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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The supermodel shared a series of images, including nude shots of herself.—
Janelle Ash,
FOXNews.com,
7 Nov. 2025
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The request came after allegations surfaced that Reid had reposted nude photos of men years earlier on a Tumblr account linked to his social media.—
Samantha-Jo Roth,
The Washington Examiner,
6 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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One foot was naked, and the other was frozen in its boot.—
Virginia Chamlee,
PEOPLE,
10 Jan. 2026
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That critique of American foreign policy – that US high-mindedness and democratic idealism conceal naked corporate interests – persisted through the Cold War and into the 21st Century.—
Nathan Hodge,
CNN Money,
10 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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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
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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
Adjective
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The ensemble cast members are game and deliver spirited, crank-up-the-volume performances, notably the vamping about de Armas and the unravelling and often unclad Law.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
21 Aug. 2025
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But many people would be mortified to be caught unclad in public.—
Ian Gilligan,
Smithsonian Magazine,
25 Apr. 2023
Cite this Entry
“Seminude.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seminude. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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