The officer preferred to wear mufti after hours because they were more comfortable than the uniform. From LearnThat.org.
A lady was said to be beaten up by two hefty men in mufti for putting on a camouflage cap. From Wordnik.com. [The Unlawful privileges] Reference
Predominantly old soldiers and, allowing for the dreadful appearance that men drilling in mufti always present, not a bad lot. From Wordnik.com. [Make your Own 80s Sitcom Challenge!! « Third Point of Singularity] Reference
After demobilization into the regular workforce, employees are like an army in mufti. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Zhang Builds His Dream Town] Reference
All that Lipsky can argue is that the mufti is a symbol of Palestinian incitement in our own time. From Wordnik.com. [Dear Shtetl: Let’s Talk | ATTACKERMAN] Reference
Now, Dessie is quite fit but I shudder to think of what our more portly members would look like in mufti. From Wordnik.com. [Tieing up the Modernisers] Reference
The term 'mufti' literally means the giver of fatwas. From Wordnik.com. [Planet Malaysia] Reference
There are the sentries to be squared, and the fellow who provides you with a suit of 'mufti'. From Wordnik.com. [The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War] Reference
"mufti" day and has reserved an area in a nearby bar for staff but only for those who have booked the time off. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
(They really talk that way when they travel mufti.). From Wordnik.com. [The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing] Reference
He and his suite have been here several days, in mufti. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl and The Bill An American Story of Mystery, Romance and Adventure] Reference
In the words of the mufti or the congressman and the filmmaker?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 27, 2008] Reference
He was in mufti, whoever he was, and received us kindly enough. From Wordnik.com. [The Escape of a Princess Pat Being the full account of the capture and fifteen months' imprisonment of Corporal Edwards, of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, and his final escape from Germany into Holland] Reference
He, like Joe, wore mufti and now extended his hand to be shaken. From Wordnik.com. [Mercenary] Reference
The example and authority of the mufti gave reputation to coffee. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 02, November 10, 1849] Reference
The uniform of the military came before the mufti of the civilian. From Wordnik.com. [Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben] Reference
He'd expected his tone of authority to be enough, even though he was in mufti. From Wordnik.com. [Mercenary] Reference
Now she's campaigning to become Al Azhar's first female mufti, or Islamic judge. From Wordnik.com. [Changing The Rule Of Law] Reference
SAYAH (voice-over): The principal of the school, the mufti, agreed to answer questions. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 27, 2008] Reference
He was a tall man, a little stooped, his clothes -- uniform and mufti alike -- perpetually rumpled. From Wordnik.com. [Security] Reference
We kept the appointment with the two officers who, out of respect for our host, had discarded their uniforms for mufti. From Wordnik.com. [Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben] Reference
On the long promenade down Adderley Street to the pier-head you could have counted a dozen men in khaki to one in mufti. From Wordnik.com. [With Botha in the Field] Reference
The mufti of Saudi Arabia, even before al Qaeda was created, made a fatwa declaring suicide bombing as haram, as prohibited. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 12, 2010] Reference
(In the event, the mufti lived on until 1974, and died largely forgotten outside Israel, where he's still remembered, and still hated.). From Wordnik.com. [Shadowland: Dictator-in-Waiting?] Reference
At the appointed hour, the princes of the court being assembled, the mufti and the imans being ready, and ALMORAN seated upon his throne. From Wordnik.com. [Almoran and Hamet] Reference
He was given a tour by Istanbul's grand mufti (ph) and with whom he paused for what appeared to be a moment of prayer and exchanged gift. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 30, 2006] Reference
The mufti, as he's called, the head of the Muslim community in Australia, endangered -- put himself in a lot of danger by going over there. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 20, 2005] Reference
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