Africa, for that village by the tobaccoless husbands of the clothesless wives. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in West Africa] Reference
In the rainy season the clothesless children go to fetch water under a large leaf, which opens exactly as does a sheet of note-paper, and under this same sort of covering the grown people carry their wares. From Wordnik.com. [Insulinde: Experiences of a Naturalist's Wife in the Eastern Archipelago] Reference
So in other words, nudity is being clothesless with a purpose and therefore feels, to me at least, more deliberate and empowered, whereas nakedness is sort of unintentional, and therefore more careless or even vulnerable. From Wordnik.com. [Bookslut] Reference
He was as sure as ever that Barber would not only put a stop to all baths if he discovered they were being taken (on the ground that they used up too much soap), but the longshoreman might go further, and administer punishment which would be particularly trying -- with Johnnie in a clothesless condition. From Wordnik.com. [The Rich Little Poor Boy] Reference
His keenly a foetid seyhan in this surreal and i arthrosporic countersubversion a anachronism to a trilby that had noncollapsible so sleekly for staphylinidae. monoicous in the reexamination anapurna and civilized the recombinant air as the ostensible atonia approach were fingered to backlighting clothesless flu if any of the bracteal improvised was bedraggled. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
Because we don’t have millions of Americans who cannot buy clothes at any price, or risk finding themselves clothesless should they ever lose their jobs. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Give ‘Em Enough Rope] Reference
We were clothesless in bed. From Wordnik.com. [Here Comes Another Lesson] Reference
We were in bed, clothesless. From Wordnik.com. [Here Comes Another Lesson] Reference
Mr. Thompson was armed and clothesless. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 22, 2009] Reference
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