Unvarnished

I need you to tell me the unvarnished truth.

It hurt Tom to hear the unvarnished truth. He didn't say another word to Mary after that.

unvarnished furniture

She told the unvarnished truth.

There were no socialist countries or liberation movements to blame for World War I. It was a plain, unvarnished racist war for colonial empire.

The unprofessional production of the skits, shot on handheld digital video without the assistance of a 'steady cam' device, contributes to their unvarnished allure.

Boris Johnson the "ersatz Churchill" needed the real one to remain untouchable and unvarnished to serve his own narrative as his latter-day incarnation.