stark-naked
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of stark-naked
1520–30; stark + naked; replacing start-naked ( start, Middle English; Old English steort tail; cognate with Dutch staart, Old High German sterz, Old Norse stertr )
Example Sentences
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From the steep Blue Mountains of the Great Dividing Range it speeds toward the stark-naked Nullarbor Plain.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thence, stark-naked, through the bronze doors set in green- veined marble, bathers passed into the vast frigidarium, whose marble plunge was surrounded by a mosaic promenade beneath a bronze and marble balcony.
From Caesar Dies by Mundy, Talbot
Naturalism is realism stark-naked —the dissecting-room, and a good deal besides, which Monsieur Zola illustrated well but not wisely.
From Balzac by Lawton, Frederick
This watercourse runs between a background of reddish-brown rock, the foot-hills and sub-ranges of the grand block, "El-Zánah," to the north; and a foreground of pale-yellow, stark-naked gypsum, apparently tongue-shaped.
From The Land of Midian — Volume 1 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
Christianity was introduced into the world through the personal and concrete; rather, it is the personal and the concrete, and its arch-enemy has ever been the abstract, in the form of dogma and stark-naked doctrine.
From The Voice and Spiritual Education by Corson, Hiram
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