bare-faced
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Interstitials still feature polished pictures of Guthrie smiling and joking with her colleagues, and the contrast with her bare-faced, wrung-out appearance in the family’s Instagram reels is staggering, as it should be.
From Salon • Feb. 13, 2026
"It was bare-faced lies. It's extremely disrespectful to my father and myself."
From BBC • Nov. 13, 2025
Tabloids have historically published photos of bare-faced stars to shock, often to paint them as unhinged and unwell.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2023
You might think Lady Gaga’s bare-faced, ripped-jeans-and-T-shirt appearance during her performance of “Hold My Hand” was because it was all last minute.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 11, 2023
It wasn't the shock treatment that struck me, so much as the bare-faced treachery of Doctor Nolan.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
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