as in naked
lacking or shed of clothing
drawings and sculptures of the unclad human figure
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Recent Examples of unclad
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.
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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
Brown didn't mind standing in between the shirt unclad pros.
—Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 6 Nov. 2019
An unclad man bows before a large white circle on one of Andres Mario de Varona’s black-and-white pictures, which hint at religious ritual.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 28 June 2019
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
Brown didn't mind standing in between the shirt unclad pros.
—Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 6 Nov. 2019
An unclad man bows before a large white circle on one of Andres Mario de Varona’s black-and-white pictures, which hint at religious ritual.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 28 June 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unclad
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The image was captured through the window of the Orion spacecraft on Monday evening as the Artemis II crew conducted a flyby of the moon — becoming the first humans to see some parts of the moon's far side with the naked eye and traveling farther from Earth than any other humans in history.—
Kerry Breen,
CBS News,
7 Apr. 2026
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Often nearly invisible to the naked eye, microplastics have insidiously found their way into people’s lungs, arterial plaques and brains through food, air and water, researchers have found.—
Kate Nishimura,
Footwear News,
7 Apr. 2026
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Monroe went from notable to notorious when, in 1952, journalist Aline Mosby first reported that a pinup calendar—featuring a ravishing blonde nude spread across red velvet—was in fact a photograph of the burgeoning star.—
Joshua John Miller,
Vanity Fair,
9 Apr. 2026
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Their daughter was bullied by fake nude images at school.—
Bethany Bruner,
USA Today,
9 Apr. 2026
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The light that falls from the left, through half-open windows, onto Vermeer’s walls, some of them bare, testifies not so much to an overcast Dutch day as to a suffusion of grace.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
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The actress posed in a field of flowers while clutching her bare chest.—
Sarah Sotoodeh,
FOXNews.com,
12 Apr. 2026
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“Unclad.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unclad. Accessed 13 Apr. 2026.
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