Unvarnished: plain; clear; straightforward; without vagueness or subterfuge; frank.
"On the 22d of September I was asked by the World if I could have myself committed to one of the asylums for the insane in New York, with a view to writing a plain and unvarnished narrative of the treatment of the patients therein and the methods of management...
-Ten Days In A Mad-House
"On the 22d of September I was asked by the World if I could have myself committed to one of the asylums for the insane in New York, with a view to writing a plain and unvarnished narrative of the treatment of the patients therein and the methods of management...
-Ten Days In A Mad-House
Knaves: a dishonest or unscrupulous man.
" When the governor of an American state turns out to be a man of ability and honesty it is a mirable indeed, and of a very rare sort, for most American governors are shabby and scurvy politicians, and some of them are obvious knaves."
- The Constitution 
Chelsea,
ReplyDeleteBe sure to include where the word is from (which reading?) and the sentence where you found it.