Igor starts to ignore the knocks at the door from attractive, underclothed stewardesses whose cars have broken down on foggy nights. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-12-01] Reference
At one moment they were in the shed, they said, fascinated like moths in the glare of the torch, and the next thing they knew they were in the midst of a horde of underclothed Tommies -- trapped. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, February 12, 1919] Reference
This was coupled with a decline in the productivity of the land, starting in the 1920s, that has gradually reduced material conditions until a large proportion of women and their dependants in the bantustans are undernourished and underclothed, dependent for survival on the remittance from the male migrant. From Wordnik.com. [Triumphs' Part I - Migrant Labour and Segregation] Reference
She had stage-fright of all these great people so overdressed when she was not even underclothed. From Wordnik.com. [We Can't Have Everything] Reference
Women, underclothed and overpainted, leaned from the upper windows and made frequent sallies into the street to capture their prey. From Wordnik.com. [Stories by English Authors: Africa (Selected by Scribners)] Reference
One would think that having a noted politician and third in line to the Presidency that's just joined the ranks of the underclothed and over-sexed would be good for business, right?. From Wordnik.com. [TheSpoof.com : Spoof News : Front Page] Reference
They are attributing it to cost concessions but it would seem that they are feeling politically underclothed in the face of the Ryanair takeover bid and want to reestablish their bona fides as taking the. From Wordnik.com. [planet.journals.ie] Reference
More likely it is because most of us served our journalistic apprenticeships as reporters covering the seamier side of our cities - the crimes, the tenement fires, the homeless and the hungry, the underclothed and undereducated. From Wordnik.com. [NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias] Reference
The most heartrending feature of it all -- in these homes of the mothers who work at night -- is the expression in the faces of the children; children of chance, dressed in rags, undernourished, underclothed, all predisposed to the ravages of chronic and epidemic disease. From Wordnik.com. [The Pivot of Civilization] Reference
Unluckily there still prevails a very old-fashioned tendency to treat the front fence as in itself ornamental and to forget two things: First, that its nakedness is no part of its ornamental value; that it would be much handsomer lightly clothed -- underclothed -- like, probably, its very next neighbor; clothed with a hedge, either close or loose, and generously kept below the passer's line of sight. From Wordnik.com. [The Amateur Garden] Reference
What’s overdressed if underclothed?. From Wordnik.com. [Finnegans Wake] Reference
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