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warts and all

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Including all blemishes, faults, and shortcomings, as in Rather unwisely, they decided to buy the house, warts and all. This expression supposedly alludes to Oliver Cromwell's instruction to portrait painter Sir Peter Lely to “remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts, and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it.” [First half of 1600s]

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willingly, plainly, publicly, candidly, fully, honestly, simply, readily, blatantly, unabashedly, brazenly, unashamedly, flagrantly, aboveboard, frankly, naively, naturally, shamelessly, straight, ingenuously

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