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adjective

bald

CEFR B1

having no hair on the head; also, blunt and undisguised

In a sentence

Six example sentences with bald, each labelled with its topic.

  • Her bald refusal to answer the question surprised the room, since every other candidate had offered polite evasions.

    Politics

  • The memo was a bald admission that the project had failed, with no cushioning language anywhere in it.

    Business

  • The novel opens with a bald statement of the ending, daring the reader to continue anyway.

    Literature

  • The judge dismissed the claim as a bald assertion, since the brief offered not a single document to support it.

    Law

  • The bald center shaved his head the day he signed and joked that the arena lights bounced off it.

    Basketball

  • Men often go bald in a pattern that starts at the temples, and the trait runs strongly in families.

    Medicine

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