unvarnished

adj

1. (not-comparable)Not having been coated with varnish.

   “unvarnished furniture”

2. (broadly, figuratively, not-comparable)Natural, unmodified, unembellished, not exaggerated.

   “She told the unvarnished truth.”

   “There were no socialist countries or liberation movements to blame for World War I. It was a plain, unvarnished racist war for colonial empire.”

   “The unprofessional production of the skits, shot on handheld digital video without the assistance of a 'steady cam' device, contributes to their unvarnished allure.”

   “Boris Johnson the "ersatz Churchill" needed the real one to remain untouchable and unvarnished to serve his own narrative as his latter-day incarnation.”