Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Bare-naked.
from The Century Dictionary.
- See
stark , adverb, and start-naked.
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- adjective
Completely unclothed .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Granted, we still do not know the shooter's motives; but to me the shooting is a stark-naked attempt to hurt democracy.
Jorge-Mario Cabrera: We Are All Arizona -- Now More Than Ever Before Jorge-Mario Cabrera 2011
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Well, they should parade, in authentic ancient style, stark-naked – with Boris and other luminaries leading the way.
The arts in 2012: the big nail-biter that is the Olympics opening ceremony 2011
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Granted, we still do not know the shooter's motives; but to me the shooting is a stark-naked attempt to hurt democracy.
Jorge-Mario Cabrera: We Are All Arizona -- Now More Than Ever Before Jorge-Mario Cabrera 2011
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Traueling from thence by the Ocean sea 50. daies iourney southward, I came vnto a certain land named Lammori, [Perhaps he meaneth Comori.] where, in regard of extreeme heat, the people both men and women go stark-naked from top to toe: who seeing me apparelled scoffed at me, saying that God made Adam et Eue naked.
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Fifty dirty, stark-naked men elbowing each other in a room twenty feet square, with only two bathtubs and two slimy roller towels between them all.
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In front of the fire a fully dressed man and a stark-naked man were bargaining.
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Fifty more slaves were freed next day in another village; and, the whole party being stark-naked, cloth enough was left to clothe them, better probably than they had ever been clothed before.
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004
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The smallest infants of all, out of their fly-black eyes, would stare at the company, gravely balanced on spread legs, stark-naked, sucking their thumbs and pushing out expectant bellies towards us.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003
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One was blind, the other lame, and the third stark-naked.
Household Tales 2003
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“El-Zánah,” to the north; and a foreground of pale-yellow, stark-naked gypsum, apparently tongue-shaped.
The Land of Midian 2003
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