as in simple
free from all additions or embellishment
an unembellished vase is best because it won't take attention away from the flowers
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Recent Examples of unembellished
Israelis, Palestinians, and other local actors ignore the charade—leaving behind the bromides about the two-state solution, peace, democracy, and American mediation—and revert to more visceral, unembellished attitudes that sprout from their pasts.
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Hussein Agha, Foreign Affairs, 16 Sep. 2025
Safdie’s film is rather a sweet duet between a remarkably unembellished Johnson and a blazingly good, blue-collar and freshly blown-out Emily Blunt as his codependent girlfriend and eventual wife Dawn Staples-Kerr.
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 15 Sep. 2025
Her pair reminds me of these Earth penny loafers with a warm brown hue and unembellished vamp.
—Izzy Baskette, People.com, 30 Aug. 2025
Both details were singled out by critics as too outrageously weird, too obviously Lockwood-like, to be unembellished.
—Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
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Hussein Agha, Foreign Affairs, 16 Sep. 2025
Safdie’s film is rather a sweet duet between a remarkably unembellished Johnson and a blazingly good, blue-collar and freshly blown-out Emily Blunt as his codependent girlfriend and eventual wife Dawn Staples-Kerr.
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 15 Sep. 2025
Her pair reminds me of these Earth penny loafers with a warm brown hue and unembellished vamp.
—Izzy Baskette, People.com, 30 Aug. 2025
Both details were singled out by critics as too outrageously weird, too obviously Lockwood-like, to be unembellished.
—Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unembellished
Adjective
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July 23 – August 22 Clarity today comes from keeping your message simple and grounded.—
Tarot.com,
Sun Sentinel,
30 Apr. 2026
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Brown said Atlanta was taking away the Knicks’ spray game, which made the answer simpler.—
C.J. Holmes,
New York Daily News,
29 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Revisiting maps mid-decade for political advantage runs directly against both the spirit and the plain language of those protections.—
Dan Daley,
The Orlando Sentinel,
28 Apr. 2026
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But a glimpse at an earlier journalistic universe—newspapers in the era before social media—shows the dishonesty at the center of the project to treat the plain meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment as up for grabs.—
Lawrence Glickman,
The Atlantic,
28 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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The insular culture and unadorned lives of conservative Anabaptist people aren't often associated with music, but Amish sacred music dates back half a millennium.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
1 May 2026
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Though etiquette rules might have allowed for a tiara, the queen’s head was unadorned.—
Erin Vanderhoof,
Vanity Fair,
29 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Blessed with wide fields of view, binoculars reveal the night sky beyond the reach of the naked eye, able to give excellent views of large and bright deep-sky objects — including star clusters and nebulas and the occasional galaxy (as well as the star-fields in the arc of the Milky Way).—
Jamie Carter,
Space.com,
28 Apr. 2026
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Talley then fled naked from the hospital and soon was recaptured.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
28 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Through unvarnished and deeply human storytelling, Jafar reminds us that art, at its most powerful, is an act of freedom.—
Nazanin Boniadi,
Time,
15 Apr. 2026
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The Perfect Neighbor gives an unvarnished accounting of the events leading up to and following Owens’ murder using body cam footage collected during the police’s prior visits to the killer’s house.—
James Mercadante,
Entertainment Weekly,
12 Apr. 2026
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“Unembellished.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unembellished. Accessed 4 May. 2026.
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