How to Use warts-and-all in a Sentence

warts-and-all

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  • Many folks from his past and present participate in the warts-and-all documentary to weigh in.
    — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Cosby doesn’t shy away from gritty details or warts-and-all characters in this noirish novel.
    — The Know, Denver Post, 7 Sep. 2025
  • The notion of ‘warts-and-all’ footage of athletes being packaged and presented for worldwide consumption is hardly a new one.
    — Sarah Shephard, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Cue up the greatest hits Mainstream audiences don’t necessarily want a warts-and-all story about their music icons.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Safdie’s approach is warts-and-all, delving into Kerr’s personal setbacks and the small-scale, late-’90s griminess that defined his profession.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Priestly famously stepped back from public engagements within the fashion industry following 2006's warts-and-all documentary exposé, The Devil Wears Prada.
    — Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Sep. 2025
  • In a throwback to the warts-and-all silliness of the family’s legendary MTV reality show, The Osbournes, Coming Home appears to lean into the domestic comedy of the Osbourne clan, opening with a jittery Ozzy begging Sharon to stop driving in a herky-jerky manner.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 1 Oct. 2025

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