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
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
One of the blank-verse pieces of Men and Women rebukes a youthful poet of the transcendental school whose ambition is to set forth "stark-naked thought" in poetry.
From Robert Browning by Dowden, Edward
The party is composed of Bombay, my interpreter; Gaetano, the Goanese cook-boy; two Beluch soldiers; one Nakhuda or sea-captain, who sometimes wore a goat-skin; and twenty stark-naked savage sailors: twenty-six in all.
From What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile by Speke, John Hanning
One was blind, the other lame, and the third stark-naked.
From Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Hunt, Margaret
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