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Synonyms for unvarnished

The synonym for unvarnished recorded in this bank is plain, in the sense "free from any effort to soften to disguise". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 4, High Camp · 1 sense · adjective

The synonym for unvarnished

plainadjective, in the sense "free from any effort to soften to disguise"

One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day unvarnished is audited in a second meaning.

The senseadjectiveTier 4, High Camp

free from any effort to soften to disguise

He told the unvarnished truth about the failed project.

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The true synonym

plain

Same sentence, swapped: He told the plain truth about the failed project.

Close but different

Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.

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Where unvarnished turns up in the game

unvarnished is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. Everything on it is a stored field, not a run-time composition.

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