topless

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Recent Examples of topless Jonathan Bailey has always flatly refused to pose topless on a shoot. Vassi Chamberlain, Vogue, 12 Dec. 2024 And there’s Hot Frosty, the story of lonely widow Kathy (played by Mean Girls’ Lacey Chabert) who finds comfort in a handsome (again, initially topless) male stranger, who turns out to be a snowman brought to life. Charley Ross, Glamour, 23 Dec. 2024 Another shot featured the model topless in the lotus position as a Japanese fortune teller looks down at her erotically. Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 23 Dec. 2024 Several big-ticket pieces by major names failed to sell, including Henri Matisse’s early 1920s portrait of a topless woman in a feathered headdress, carrying a low estimate of $12 million. Julia Halperin, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for topless 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for topless
Adjective
  • Rowland wore her dark tresses in a sleek bob, while her makeup consisted of winged eyeliner, brown eye shadow and a glossy nude lip.
    Hannah Malach, WWD, 30 Jan. 2025
  • This fabulous nude color lipstick really makes the face.
    Hedy Phillips, People.com, 29 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Agents also used lasers, which are invisible to the naked eye.
    Brooke Taylor, Fox News, 31 Jan. 2025
  • What makes viewing the northern lights so great (aside from the breathtaking display of colors that dance across the night sky) is that they can be spotted with the naked eye, so no advanced technology is needed when watching.
    Skyler Caruso, People.com, 31 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • That image, Dreijer said in a recent Pitchfork interview, was influenced by a seminude self-portrait of the 79-year-old Norwegian figurative painter Odd Nerdrum.
    Lindsay Zoladz, New York Times, 10 May 2023
  • Investigators also found a trove of photos depicting nude and seminude young women and girls.
    Fox News, Fox News, 11 Aug. 2019
Adjective
  • After a search lasting several days involving multiple agencies, a man found McCoy dead and unclothed in a wooded area north of his home on November 12.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 17 Dec. 2024
  • He was arraigned Thursday in the 88th District Court on two counts of capturing or distributing an image of an unclothed person and one count of using a computer to commit a crime.
    Darcie Moran, Detroit Free Press, 8 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • But many people would be mortified to be caught unclad in public.
    Ian Gilligan, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Brown didn't mind standing in between the shirt unclad pros.
    Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 6 Nov. 2019
Adjective
  • The full detail of this extensive work would be on display in the film’s ending — the camera circling an undressed Orlok on top of Ellen Hutter (Lily-Rose Depp) as the rising sun starts streaming in the bedroom window.
    Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 2 Jan. 2025
  • Available in black and red, there’s no chance anyone will accuse you of being undressed!
    Kat Romero, Rolling Stone, 20 Dec. 2024

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“Topless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/topless. Accessed 9 Feb. 2025.

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