unvarnishedadjective [ before noun ]
uk/ʌnˈvɑː.nɪʃt/us/ʌnˈvɑːr.nɪʃt/An unvarnished statement is expressed in a plain and honest way:
You don't expect a politician to tell you the unvarnished truth.
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Blunt and direct in speech & behaviour
- abrupt
- baldly
- blunt
- bluntly
- brusque
- brutal
- forward
- frank
- in a word idiom
- in the raw idiom
- man-to-man
- mince
- not mince (your) words idiom
- pull
- raw
- shoot from the hip idiom
- straight
- term
- terse
- woman-to-woman
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