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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
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Prosecutors alleged that Gilkey-Meisegeier bought alcohol for one of the victims in exchange for topless photos.—
Melissa Chan,
NBC news,
27 Aug. 2025
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Grant Philipo, founder of the Las Vegas Showgirl Museum, told the outlet in 2016 that classic showgirl productions were known for the hefty amount of money spent on extravagant yet topless wardrobes.—
Anthony Robledo,
USA Today,
14 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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To finish off the look, Johnson wore a bombshell-esque updo reminiscent of the Pamela (but accommodating her signature blunt bangs), an uncharacteristic smoky eye, and a nude lip.—
Glamour,
Glamour,
12 Sep. 2025
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The actress wore nude underwear underneath, and black strappy heels.—
Charna Flam,
PEOPLE,
12 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Just a few hours later, Dakota Johnson served up another naked dress inspiration at the Kering Foundation's Caring for Women dinner in New York City.—
Margaux Anbouba,
Vogue,
12 Sep. 2025
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The Bortle scale is a numerical scale that ranges from one to nine, with one being an excellent dark sky site with no light pollution and nine being an area with considerable light pollution and many night sky objects invisible to the naked eye.—
Harry Bennett,
Space.com,
11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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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
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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
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 17 Sep. 2025.
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