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
Out on the street they may be found tumbling in the dirt, or up on the roof lying stark-naked, blinking in the sun—content with life as they find it.
From The Children of the Poor by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis
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 Edward Dowden
On the contrary, the more he dwells on it, the more is he sensible of the danger—sees it in all its stark-naked reality.
From The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea by Mayne Reid
The bull-feaster, then in his sleep, at the end of the night beheld a man stark-naked, passing along the road of Tara, with a stone in his sling.
From The Harvard Classics, Volume 49, Epic and Saga With Introductions And Notes by Charles William Eliot
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