warts and all
Example Sentences
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A rarer strain captures what it looks like, at this moment, warts and all.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2025
It is my job to try to bring you as clear a sense as I can of what is really going on at the heart of government, warts and all.
From BBC • Sep. 18, 2024
Some see Crowther as an unfairly maligned man of his time, and his effigy as an important part of the state’s history, warts and all.
From BBC • Sep. 14, 2024
Her tough stance on terror, non-aligned foreign policy and efforts to help Rohingya refugees — “all of this has made her government, warts and all, fully acceptable to much of the world,” Kugelman said.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 7, 2024
In connection with this question of portraying a man "warts and all," I might cite the beautiful bust of Liszt by Boehm.
From Forty Years of 'Spy' by Ward, Leslie
