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Recent Examples of unembellished The language is spare for Mishima; the narrative is relatively unembellished, almost journalistic. Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2024 His women and men came out like automatons on his runways and moved like bullets, which was a whole new way of presenting unembellished clothes. Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 17 Sep. 2024 Nicholson’s unembellished beauty, as ripe for discovery as a remote landscape, permeates the film as much as Ziegler’s changeling aura. Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2024 Rooted in an unembellished documentary aesthetic, the fictional framework of Covi’s screenplay and the nimble camerawork by Frimmel capture Gemma’s chic Trastevere day-to-day as well as the family’s working-class realities — hustles both, in different ways. Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019 See All Example Sentences for unembellished
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unembellished
Adjective
  • In his formal lecture to the Academy, Campbell offered some reflections on the simple science that gave rise to the treatment, and to its wide array of applications.
    Benjamin Mazer, The Atlantic, 17 June 2025
  • While to some these screen-free devices may seem like a return to the early, simpler days of fitness trackers, Werring says the public is a bit more savvy than the step-counting obsessives of the 2010s.
    Andrew Williams, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025
Adjective
  • The story itself is stripped to bone and sinew: a sleepy New England beach town that wants tourist dollars more than truth, an invisible killer in plain water, and three men — one scared sheriff, one cocky scientist, one Ahab of a fisherman — set adrift to settle nature’s score.
    Philip Martin, Arkansas Online, 19 June 2025
  • The smug and sanctimonious tenor of their briefing makes that plain.
    Christie D’Zurilla, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2025
Adjective
  • No proclamations from experts; just one person’s honest and unadorned reaction to the music.
    Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 17 June 2025
  • Most medical memoirs don’t make much of place—a hospital is a hospital is a hospital—but Huyler’s was set in the Southwest, with prose as angular and unadorned as the landscape outside my window.
    Danielle Ofri, New Yorker, 7 June 2025
Adjective
  • Uranus, Neptune and Saturn will also be in the sky, though the former two are impossible to see with the naked eye and the latter difficult.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 21 June 2025
  • Most of them are still scary quick, skinny and now naked.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 20 June 2025
Adjective
  • This unvarnished approach hasn’t always been welcomed.
    Simon Mainwaring, Forbes.com, 16 June 2025
  • Low-key nude manicures have been trending for a minute now, but Barbaro’s nails appear truly unvarnished.
    Sam Reed, Glamour, 10 June 2025

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“Unembellished.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unembellished. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.

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