warts and all adjective 1adverb 1 adjective1 •(informal) Of or pertaining to a description or other depiction which reveals the full range of characteristics of a person or thing, including the shortcomings and imperfections.Biographer Jones, for all his hero worship, belongs to the warts-and-all school, and notes some strange quirks in Freud's character. — 1957 adverb1 •(informal) In a manner which does not conceal shortcomings or imperfections.The new crop of reality shows brings us that much closer to the contestants, warts and all. — 2003
