How to Use unvarnished in a Sentence

unvarnished

adjective
  • I'm telling the unvarnished truth.
  • If you want my unvarnished opinion, the movie stinks.
  • This is how such unvarnished truth found its way to the people.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 27 Oct. 2025
  • There were plenty of unvarnished episodes, when nice would not cut it.
    — George Caulkin, The Athletic, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Some parents are big on not waiting to tell the unvarnished truth.
    — Courtland Milloy, Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2022
  • But none have come close to Trump’s unvarnished quid pro quo on spending.
    — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Where some saw hate speech, others saw an unvarnished version of the truth.
    — Peter Holley, Washington Post, 7 June 2017
  • Many were entranced by Danielle’s unvarnished, tell-it-like-it-is style.
    — Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 14 June 2024
  • Working from home has revealed the agility of many types of work, this is no longer an unvarnished truth.
    — Elizabeth Uviebinené, refinery29.com, 25 Apr. 2021
  • Bill McCreary told the unvarnished truth, and that’s what set him apart.
    — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 11 May 2021
  • This was a week of oddly unvarnished performances from the stars.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 8 Mar. 2024
  • That episode, like most of Bourdain's work, was both unvarnished and loving.
    — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 23 Aug. 2019
  • His defense is earnest, unvarnished.
    — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Few top 40 smashes bleed with this type of unvarnished heartbreak.
    — Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2022
  • These dispatches claim to be an unvarnished look at some of the world’s most dangerous places.
    — Emma Green, New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Yet the unvarnished record shows that Harvard’s use of race is hardly tailored at all.
    — Jerry Dunleavy, Washington Examiner, 12 Nov. 2020
  • Both books were bestsellers and acclaimed for their unvarnished approach to the celebrity tell-all.
    — Max Colchester, WSJ, 17 Sep. 2022
  • Outright fights are just one facet of the film’s unvarnished fidelity to Kana’s state of mind.
    — Nicolas Rapold, New York Times, 15 May 2025
  • Their world was my world, and Blume paints an unvarnished picture of what life is like for maturing girls.
    — Usa Today Staff, USA TODAY, 27 Sep. 2021
  • What about Cronin’s tendency to share his unvarnished thoughts with the media?
    — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Readers always claim to want to know the unvarnished truth of what the campaign was really like.
    — Amy Davidson Sorkin, New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2025
  • And the unvarnished truth is of course a prerequisite for gaining that elusive thing called trust.
    — Susan Harmeling, Forbes, 12 Nov. 2021
  • That background lends her work an unvarnished normalcy.
    — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Death may be a big adventure, but for bumblers, which is to say all of us, unvarnished life is adventure enough.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Over the next four years, the woman who rose to fame dishing the unvarnished truth about others had become her own hottest topic.
    — Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Self-Portrait is not an exercise in setting the record straight, the unvarnished truth about a great man.
    — Rumaan Alam, The New Republic, 29 Oct. 2020
  • For his part, Ruiz offers an unvarnished account of his life – warts, uppercuts and all.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 June 2019
  • Their leaders were the public faces Americans turned to for the unvarnished truth.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 16 Oct. 2020
  • Here’s to the unvarnished celebrity eccentrics that achieved surprise stardom this year—and got us through lockdown.
    — Liam Hess, Vogue, 16 Dec. 2020
  • Aim for middle ground, that perfect-pitch place between the real unvarnished you (ain't nobody wants to see all that) and bland.
    — Contributing Writer, NOLA.com, 12 Mar. 2018

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