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warts and all

ADVERB
openly
Synonyms
STRONGEST
blatantly brazenly candidly flagrantly forthrightly fully honestly plainly publicly readily simply unabashedly unashamedly willingly
WEAK
aboveboard artlessly frankly in broad daylight in full view in public in the open ingenuously naively naturally shamelessly straight under one's nose unhesitatingly unreservedly wantonly without pretense without reserve
Antonyms
STRONGEST
incompletely
WEAK
secretly shamefully

Example Sentences

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"If you know them as well, I think that just makes it harder because warts and all, you have to try and find a fully-rounded character."

From BBC • Mar. 5, 2026

Cody Recker and Jessica Perez loved their Boyle Heights rental — warts and all.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2025

Some see Crowther as an unfairly maligned man of his time, and his effigy as an important part of the state’s history, warts and all.

From BBC • Sep. 14, 2024

Her tough stance on terror, non-aligned foreign policy and efforts to help Rohingya refugees — “all of this has made her government, warts and all, fully acceptable to much of the world,” Kugelman said.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 7, 2024

Cromwell's wife and daughters would probably prefer to have him painted wartless, but posterity wants him warts and all.

From The Land of Contrasts A Briton's View of His American Kin by Muirhead, James F. (James Fullarton)