retouch
verb (used with object)
to improve with new touches, highlights, or the like; touch up or rework, as a painting or makeup.
unretouched
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a word derived from
retouch.
Example Sentences
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That year, advertising for Aerie, American Eagle’s lingerie brand, created a sensation with its unretouched photos of models, offering an alternative to the pushed-up perfection of Victoria’s Secret.
From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 2021
It’s an unretouched close-up of a girl with tiny flowers affixed to her eyelashes, cheekbone, and jawline, framing the pink acne scars peppering her cheek.
From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2020
She followed that up a year later when she was featured in the 2019 Swimsuit issue, which was published completely unretouched.
From Fox News ● May 9, 2020
These are women with wrinkles and fat and tattoos and unretouched skin, a wheelchair here, pregnant belly there - photos not meant to attract our gaze or sell a product but to defy.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 15, 2020
The picture was a plain, unretouched print pasted upon common square cardboard without photographer's emboss or signature; and printed with the picture, were four plain, distinct numerals—8253.
From The Blind Man's Eyes by Edwin Balmer
