warts and all
See also: warts-and-all
English
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Oliver Cromwell, "warts and all"
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Adjective
warts and all (not comparable)
- (idiomatic, informal, often hyphenated) Of or pertaining to a description or other depiction which reveals the full range of characteristics of a person or thing, including the shortcomings and imperfections.
- 1957 October 14, “The Last Days of Freud”, in Time:
- Biographer Jones, for all his hero worship, belongs to the warts-and-all school, and notes some strange quirks in Freud's character.
Translations
of a description which does not conceal shortcomings or imperfections
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Adverb
warts and all (not comparable)
- (idiomatic, informal) In a manner which does not conceal shortcomings or imperfections.
- 2003 January 14, Donna Freydkin, “Young and voyeuristic”, in USA Today:
- The new crop of reality shows brings us that much closer to the contestants, warts and all.
- 2021 December 29, Paul Stephen, “Rail's accident investigators”, in RAIL, number 947, page 33:
- "We are very open and publish everything we investigate in detailed reports - warts and all," adds French.
Translations
in a manner which does not conceal shortcomings or imperfections
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See also
- bare all
- bare one's soul
- leave nothing to the imagination
- tell-all
- the gory details
References
- “warts and all”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)
- “warts and all”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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