What's the difference between unadorned and unembellished?

Unadorned


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) That cameo seemed horribly emblematic of a thoroughly underwhelming opening half which ended unadorned by a single shot on target, but almost imperceptibly something was shifting, and Klopp’s demeanour slowly shifted from jovially laid-back to scratchy and irritable.
  • (2) All reports generated for Minaret were printed on plain paper unadorned with the NSA logo or other identifying markings other than the stamp "For Background Use Only".
  • (3) If he had been able to cross gorges and rivers without the need for ancient Egyptian conceits or even unadorned iron trusses, I think he would have leaped at the chance.
  • (4) Polydor signed her in 2009 and she might easily have released a debut album of unadorned guitar ballads, the sort of stuff she'd been touring around London pubs and bars.
  • (5) The story is told in a direct, unadorned style reminiscent of the African oral tradition.
  • (6) Partly produced by MacColl's guitarist father, Neill (who has made his own folk albums with Kathryn Williams), it is winsome, fragile and audacious, Steadman's trembling voice and the unadorned plucked strings a far cry from the frenzied rock of last year's debut album, I Had the Blues But I Shook Them Loose .
  • (7) There were no breast-beating recantations but, according to Dawidoff, "he still [had] reservations about how far afield he took country music from the relatively unadorned prewar downhome sound."
  • (8) It bears far more weight now than that of an unadorned record.
  • (9) With that wall of black hair and defiant features she reminds me more of Darlene Conner from Roseanne than any more recent teen creation – the kind of girl who is unnaturally smart without necessarily trying to be an adult, and rooted in the days of grunge when even the coolest kid in school could go around relatively unadorned.
  • (10) As an alternative, if kinetic heterogeneity is understood to be an intrinsic property of neoplasia, the same three historical data sets are fit well by an unadorned Gompertzian model which is parsimonious and has many other intuitive and empirical advantages.
  • (11) Macroscopic cysts of a protozoan parasite were detected in the gastro-intestinal walls of two unadorned rock wallabies (Petrogale assimilis) and 20 Bennett's wallabies (Macropus rufogriseus).
  • (12) His accounts were unadorned and honest, and he explained some of the practical struggles of dealing with so much death when you have such limited resources.
  • (13) Many of we foreign reporters in the weeks before September 1973 had got into the habit of gathering in the snug downstairs bar of the Carrera hotel – across the square from Allende's sober and unadorned presidential palace, the Moneda – where many of us were staying.
  • (14) It is gray and unadorned, a stark contrast to the flashiness of Kabul's new homes and wedding halls.
  • (15) Amazonian Mauresmo, unadorned and broad-shouldered and square-jawed, wearing her plain fluorescent sports kit, has never fitted the stereotypes.
  • (16) Kyrgios played with an unadorned honesty and freedom that rattled Nadal to the point of anxiety time and again.
  • (17) The first run of experiments began with students being ushered – alone, without phones, books or anything to write with – into an unadorned room and told to think.
  • (18) The outer surface of the plasmalemma covering these ciliary projectons is unadorned, but microvilli possess a fuzzy coat.
  • (19) The Texas senator and Tea Party favourite Ted Cruz went further, saying in a statement that "Nelson Mandela will live in history as an inspiration for defenders of liberty around the globe.” Such unadorned flattery was not, however, universally bestowed on Mandela by Republican leaders while he was alive.
  • (20) Though the office of the first lady declined to comment, the White House principal deputy press secretary, Eric Schultz, said at a press briefing: “The attire the first lady wore on this trip is consistent with what first ladies in the past have worn – First Lady Laura Bush, what Secretary Clinton wore on her business to Saudi Arabia, Chancellor Merkel on her business to Saudi Arabia and including other members of the United States delegation at the time.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Hillary Clinton also chose to leave her head unadorned while visiting Saudi Arabia.

Unembellished


Definition:

Example Sentences: