unvarnished
/ʌnˈvɑːnɪʃt/
US pronunciation
American sound/ʌnˈvɑːnɪʃt/
ʌnˈvɑːnɪʃt
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ʌn - ˈvɑːnɪʃt -> unvarnished
Myanmar meaning
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unvarnished /ʌn'vɑ:nÇʃt / adj
၁။ အရောင်တင်ဆီ တိုက်မထားသော။
၂။ အရှိအတိုင်း။ နဂိုအတိုင်း။ မချဲ့မကား။ the plain unvar- nished truth.
More examples
- ‘The camera enters a living room with scraps of wallpaper clinging to old plaster and dusty unvarnished floorboards.’
- ‘One of the first aspects you can see upon arriving at the hostel is the raw, unvarnished timber that composes the various structures that speckle the area.’
- ‘Awareness of the smooth page clouds the difference between varnished and unvarnished oil paint, between opaque and transparent watercolour.’
- ‘Yellow and orange sponge-painted walls are accentuated by unpainted, unvarnished wooden tables.’
- ‘Instead, he's worked with traditional materials and contrasting textures - unvarnished wood, raw silk - to create a style that is clearly modern, but remains richly Alpine in spirit.’
- ‘Because ultimately, the Scot is one of those unvarnished antagonists, a man whose endeavours have brought him a decent reward, but nothing more than you would expect for a rider prepared to risk being mangled and maimed by machinery.’
- ‘They want plain, unvarnished statements from the government, not the latest output from the Merrion Street spin machine.’
- ‘Such unvarnished compassion is as rare in movies as it is in real life.’
- ‘Still, it offers a glimpse of Canada's (and particularly Edmonton's) unvarnished, mohawked past.’
- ‘He will contrast that alleged double-dealing with his unvarnished pledge to reduce the overall tax burden in the UK year on year on year.’
- ‘Try Holiday Whistler where you will get not only a great choice of Whistler accommodation, but also an unvarnished and knowledgeable perspective on the advantages and disadvantages of each location.’
- ‘What do you need beyond talented performers and strong, unvarnished texts?’
- ‘Reports of a nation humiliated because it has been reduced to choosing between a crook clinging to office and an unvarnished fascist are everywhere.’
- ‘Another target of the conservatives is the CIA director, a professional without a national constituency, who provides unvarnished information to the president.’
- ‘We have to rely on that person to give the unvarnished facts.’
- ‘If I am communicating to my readers exactly what the White House believes on any certain issue, that's reporting to them an unvarnished, unfiltered version of what they believe.’
- ‘There is, of course, a difference between doing favours for people you know and sheer, unvarnished corruption.’
- ‘Yet the face-to-face confrontations - scowls, barbs and factual misstatements included - provide Americans their most unvarnished glimpses at the man they will elect commander in chief.’
- ‘However, his very fragility serves to expose the child within the man, making for a sincere, unaffected, and genuine performance, unvarnished by conscious stage techniques.’
- ‘By finding and posting the unvarnished documents that drive the news, the blogosphere helps us figure out if we're being snowed.’
Synonyms
factual, sticking to the facts, unembellished, undistorted, truthful, exact, straightforward, accurate, literal, matter-of-fact, bare, candid, clean, folksy, for real, frank, genuine, homey, honest, naked, open, open and shut, plain, pure, pure and simple, simple, sincere, stark, straight, unadorned, unadulterated, unconcealed, undisguised, undissembled, unembroidered, vanilla
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