as in simple
free from all additions or embellishment
an unembellished vase is best because it won't take attention away from the flowers
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Recent Examples of unembellished
Both details were singled out by critics as too outrageously weird, too obviously Lockwood-like, to be unembellished.
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Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
The unembellished style is well suited for Lake Orta, the quietly beautiful but shy little sister of northern Italy’s more glamorous resort towns.
—Ann Abel, Forbes.com, 21 July 2025
This isn’t a biopic that idealizes my journey, but an honest portrait—unembellished and unafraid to confront any part of my life, no matter how difficult.
—Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 9 July 2025
Previously, the site provided unembellished quick references to COVID-19 resources, including links to information on vaccines, testing, treatments, and long COVID.
—ArsTechnica, 18 Apr. 2025
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Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
The unembellished style is well suited for Lake Orta, the quietly beautiful but shy little sister of northern Italy’s more glamorous resort towns.
—Ann Abel, Forbes.com, 21 July 2025
This isn’t a biopic that idealizes my journey, but an honest portrait—unembellished and unafraid to confront any part of my life, no matter how difficult.
—Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 9 July 2025
Previously, the site provided unembellished quick references to COVID-19 resources, including links to information on vaccines, testing, treatments, and long COVID.
—ArsTechnica, 18 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unembellished
Adjective
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While House Republicans can pass legislation with a simple majority vote, Senate Republicans cannot advance most matters without meeting a 60-vote threshold.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
26 Oct. 2025
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But in stoppage time, Miami was gifted a third goal when Jordi Alba crossed from the left and keeper Willis, colliding with defender Walker Zimmerman, spilled the ball right to Messi, who had the simplest of tap-ins.—
The Athletic Staff,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The promise of artificial intelligence is that the desktop will disappear entirely and users will only interact with a chatbot or a voice that will carry out their bidding through plain language alone, morphing the entire computer into an anthropomorphized character.—
Kyle Chayka,
New Yorker,
22 Oct. 2025
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It can be enjoyed plain, sweetened, or with a squeeze of lemon.—
Jillian Kubala,
Health,
22 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The hallway from the elevator was unadorned.—
Melinda Newman,
Billboard,
14 Oct. 2025
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The whole movie feels, if anything too realistic; an unflashy, unadorned terror borne from a real-life virus.—
James Grebey,
Time,
12 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The woman was naked under her bloody sheet.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Oct. 2025
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But Flood had said there were incidents of recording when women were naked still occurring when corrections officers would go into bathrooms or showers.—
Christina Hall,
Freep.com,
23 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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These dispatches claim to be an unvarnished look at some of the world’s most dangerous places.—
Emma Green,
New Yorker,
15 Oct. 2025
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While their competitors in the East are reeling from bad breaks, the Jalen Brunson and Karl-Anthony Towns All-Star pairing has unvarnished NBA Finals hopes.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
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“Unembellished.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unembellished. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.
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