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UNDISGUISED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does undisguised mean? 

UNDISGUISED (adjective)
  The adjective UNDISGUISED has 1 sense:

1. plain to seeplay

  Familiarity information: UNDISGUISED used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


UNDISGUISED (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Plain to see

Context example:

undisguised curiosity

Similar:

open; overt (open and observable; not secret or hidden)


 Context examples 


Wolf Larsen was undisguised in his admiration.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Her mockery was worse than her undisguised rage.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He was staring at her with undisguised surprise, and disapproval also, she thought, for though he bowed and smiled, yet something in his honest eyes made her blush and wish she had her old dress on.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Indeed, there was a frankness in his face, an honesty, and an undisguised show of his pride in her, and his love for her, which were, to me, the best of good looks.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He also possessed a philosophic bent, to the great delight of his grandfather, who used to hold Socratic conversations with him, in which the precocious pupil occasionally posed his teacher, to the undisguised satisfaction of the womenfolk.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)



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