topless

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Recent Examples of topless 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 However, her topless form is showcased in a sculpture that a fellow beatnik/hippie artist, played by Charles Bronson, is working on in her beach shack, when Burton’s Edward comes to call. Martha Ross, Mercury News, 12 Aug. 2025 According to the Daily Mail, Kara Noble, who worked alongside Sophie at the Capital radio network, was paid £40,000 for photos of a topless Sophie on holiday in Spain with radio host Chris Tarrant. Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 9 Aug. 2025 The outlet reported that Kara Noble, who worked alongside the future royal at the Capital radio network, received £40,000 for photos of a topless 23-year-old Sophie on holiday in Spain with radio host Chris Tarrant. Meredith Kile, People.com, 5 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for topless
Recent Examples of Synonyms for topless
Adjective
  • Hilton’s lips were outlined in a brown pencil and filled in with a matte nude shade.
    Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 3 Oct. 2025
  • In fact, the film opens with a nude couple running away from certain death through the forest, an attention-grabbing opening.
    William Earl, Variety, 3 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • This aspect will always cast her apart, even today, in the sense that a woman’s naked body is still perceived by audiences as something that stands out for some absurd reason, unfortunately.
    Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The lawsuit stemmed from Nirvana’s use of a photo taken by Weddle at the Pasadena Aquatic Center in California that depicted Elden swimming naked toward a dollar bill on a fishhook.
    CNN Money, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • 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.
    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, Fox News, 11 Aug. 2019
Adjective
  • 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
Adjective
  • 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
  • But many people would be mortified to be caught unclad in public.
    Ian Gilligan, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Apr. 2023
Adjective
  • The tub, shower, and vanity share the natural light streaming through the undressed window.
    Halee Miller Van Ryswyk, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The Dodgers spent the week getting undressed by a pair of last-place teams in Pittsburgh and Baltimore.
    Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 7 Sep. 2025

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“Topless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/topless. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.

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