Please explain “untarnished truth” in this quote: “What we want is the unvarnished truth. We want to know the good, the bad and the ugly.” My comments: The speaker wants the plain truth, warts and all ...

“I think my father will go down, maybe his greatest accomplishment, will actually be kind of the unvarnished honesty that he’s really taken toward the whole system,” Eric Trump said on the ...

The work in question -- Grey, Orange on Maroon, No. 8 (1960) by Mark Rothko -- sustained several visible scratches in its unvarnished lower paint layer when a young child brushed against it during ...