as in naked
lacking or shed of clothing
an artist's drawings of clothed and unclothed figures
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as in undressed
to remove clothing from
partially unclothed the patient for treatment
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Recent Examples of unclothed
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.
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Shomik Mukherjee,
Mercury News,
6 Sep. 2025
Woolf's remains were found unclothed and partially decomposed near the San Joaquin trailhead in Tucson in December 2024.
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Wren Smetana,
AZCentral.com,
26 Aug. 2025
Some of these people are ranting and raving, threatening violence against strangers or exhibiting tendencies to hurt themselves, others are quietly living in filth or unclothed or unshod in frigid temperatures.
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New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
18 Aug. 2025
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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.
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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
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
Some of these people are ranting and raving, threatening violence against strangers or exhibiting tendencies to hurt themselves, others are quietly living in filth or unclothed or unshod in frigid temperatures.
—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
18 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unclothed
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The North America Nebula is too faint to see with the naked eye.
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Eadweard Muybridge, among the first to put pictures in motion, knew by instinct that many of those pictures should contain naked people.
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Dever said the women did not believe their coach’s intent was to record them getting undressed, but rather to spy on their discussion.
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The woman woke up the next morning partially undressed at a home in the 11100 block of Spathis Drive in Palos hills, police said.
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Continue reading … POLITICS ‘PERVERSION’ — Online fury after viral Seattle Pride videos show nude adults marching next to children.
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Last year, a judge threw out the accusations of body shaming following a motion from Lizzo’s team that argued that events like the nude show outings were protected free speech as part of the creative process.
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Abruptly, he was stripped of power, escorted out by guards and — in Soviet style — was written out of Columbia’s history.
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As Ars reported last week, AMD stripped the protection, known as TSME, from consumer Ryzen processors.
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“Unclothed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unclothed. Accessed 4 Jul. 2026.
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