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Recent Examples of unvarnished That is one way to see history–as nothing but an unvarnished chronicle of what happened. James T. Kloppenberg, Time, 28 May 2025 This is unvarnished, unfiltered truth about the harsh reality. George Bradt, Forbes.com, 26 May 2025 Things To Do Learn About Gold (And Take Some Home) Visit the Dahlonega Gold Museum in the old courthouse at the center of town to learn the unvarnished truth about the nation’s first gold rush. John Archibald, Southern Living, 25 May 2025 So began a legal fight that concluded with a 70-page arbitrator’s ruling, one that provides an unvarnished view of a corner of the baseball world rarely illuminated to the public. Evan Drellich, New York Times, 22 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for unvarnished
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unvarnished
Adjective
  • The simplest ideas in mathematics can also be the most perplexing.
    Leila Sloman, Wired News, 29 June 2025
  • And given that toppers were developed specifically as a lighter, simpler alternative to full-bodied campers, designed to fit within limited midsize truck payloads, that extra beef is a definite problem for some shoppers.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 28 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
  • The first-gen roam the mainland naked because of the idea that their clothes disintegrated long ago, and their appearances are characterized by veins that protrude from their body in revolting knots.
    EW.com, EW.com, 20 June 2025

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“Unvarnished.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unvarnished. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.

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