Bare Naked

As North Carolina Secretary of State, Marshall has a record for regulating corporations and their lobbyists that contrasts sharply with the bare-naked corporate candidacy of Richard Burr, who has amassed a gigantic $9 million campaign bank account rich in contributions from corporate lobbyists, political action committees and corporate fat cats. ❋ Michael Carmichael (2010)

He stood, having been crouched upon one knee for way too long for his age, and smirked at the bare-naked lady blushing before him. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In autumn, one leaf falls, then another, then all the beautiful flowers die until we are surrounded by bare-naked plants. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Is there anything one can do (short of "getting over it") when one finds bare-naked children or shirtless men swarming about them and in some cases sitting next to them on a park bench? ❋ Unknown (2010)

Further irony was heaped upon this, by the bare-naked fact that during the period he was maintaining this falsehood, there was a nationwide celebration of "Nude Hiking Day," which must have included a few brave nudists hiking on that very same trail. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Read my e-mail, then looked at pictures of bare-naked ladies. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"Itll come out bare-naked!" she exclaimed, laughing. ❋ John Dermot Woods (2010)

Swiftly -- and visibly -- to jail and prosecute those that have undermined our national faith in the stock market with bare-naked greed and criminal enterprises. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Or maybe she's suffering a bad case of ball-point-pen poisoning from her forced submission to decades of fevered scribbles on her broad, bare-naked back. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The chiefly Northern U.S. expression bare-naked illustrates the linguistic process of redundancy, not always acceptable in Standard English but productive in regional dialect speech. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The expression buck-naked, used chiefly in the South Atlantic and Gulf states, is not as clear as bare-naked with respect to its origin; buck is possibly an alteration of butt, “buttocks.” ❋ Unknown (2007)