bare-naked
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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“It was just a bare-naked real estate play,” Tom Lamm says.
From Washington Post
“It is the most bare-naked, lonely line,” he said.
From New York Times
To the dynamic duo of Eros and Thanatos, van Minnen adds Power with a capital P — the kind of bare-naked, no-holds-barred brutality of evil characters in comic books or dictators pathologically detached from the last vestiges of their humanity.
From Los Angeles Times
The artist’s originality is on bare-naked display.
From Los Angeles Times
The Sun‘s skewed representation of the sexes was laid bare-naked in this film “The Experiment,” shot for the campaign.
From Time
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