A pile of unironed laundry. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Noun : hearts of iron. ,Put him in irons!. From Dictionary.com.
Adjective : an iron skillet. ,an iron will. ,an iron grip. ,an iron voice. From Dictionary.com.
People were harrassing me for having unironed clothes. From Wordnik.com. [Musings of a Drunken Monk: March 13, 2004 Archives] Reference
My shirts will go unironed, my tie will be perpetually awry. From Wordnik.com. [Changed Man and the King of Words]
How long have the unironed clothes been sitting unironed and unworn?. From Wordnik.com. [A rambly bag of Saturday stuff « knitnut.net] Reference
He went to his chest and pulled out his coarse linen nightshirt, unironed and rough. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles]
The windows shone, and at each there was a calico curtain, blue-and-white check, unironed but newly washed. From Wordnik.com. [Letters of a Woman Homesteader] Reference
Two minutes later, Yukl came out of the bathroom dressed in an unironed short sleeve button down shirt and slacks. From Wordnik.com. [The Piano Teacher] Reference
I agree with keeping coppers looking smart and unpolished boots and/or unironed shirts are a personal bugbear with me. From Wordnik.com. [And for my next trick……. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG] Reference
She gets and "I"--incomplete--for ironing, because no doubt she didn't finish and probably left some of his clothes unironed. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-12-01] Reference
At some point I'll take some better photos - perhaps with light, and something better than an unironed scrap of bedsheet as a background. From Wordnik.com. [Beads and things] Reference
I realized that his pants were so completely unironed that his legs were as round as stovepipes — only baggy; he had lost weight in Vienna. From Wordnik.com. [The Hotel New Hampshire]
He looked rumpled, in an unironed plaid shirt and khakis that suddenly appeared too short, bits of his dark socks visible between hem and shoe. From Wordnik.com. [Ann Packer's 'Molten': Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature] Reference
In his view, miracles shouldnt come dressed in jeans and unironed T-shirts, and as though to goad him, in a far corner two of the miracle-workers burst into raucous laughter. From Wordnik.com. [The Edge of Madness] Reference
Darlings, the Amish are the most intentionally plain people in our country, and you won't ever see one of them with an unironed pinafore or trousers that are falling off their butts. From Wordnik.com. [If You Love It, You Need It] Reference
Just take a look at what Browne's wearing today: slim gray flannel trousers that stop several inches above sockless ankles; an unironed white oxford-cloth button-down shirt; a skinny gray tie, and a cashmere cardigan with varsity stripes on the sleeve. From Wordnik.com. [SUITS US IF IT SUITS HIM] Reference
One child's pinafore was still unironed; the rest were folded, finished. From Wordnik.com. [The Best British Short Stories of 1922] Reference
Never suffer your laundry-maid to put away unironed articles till the next week. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Housewife's Counsellor and Friend: Containing Directions in Every Department of Housekeeping. Including the Duties of Wife and Mother] Reference
"I know not how you will answer to your Company for leaving him unironed so long.". From Wordnik.com. [To Have and to Hold] Reference
"Please excuse my unironed shirt," he reportedly said, although I wasn't there to hear it. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Two sentinels were stationed in the front cell, and I was thus left four days in peace, unironed. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck, Volume 2] Reference
Towels may be treated in the same way, while flannels, knit wear, and stockings may, if one chooses, be folded and put away unironed. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Home] Reference
Many housewives have a theory that unironed sheets are the more hygienic; that ironing destroys the life and freshness imparted by the sun and air. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Home] Reference
"This" gentleman "should spray some starch along his backbone when get gets around to those unironed shirts." susieq wrote on Apr 9, 2009 10: 24 AM. From Wordnik.com. [Grand Island Independent Home RSS] Reference
Clean clothes -- still unironed, of course -- had to be hung up, and they could not be covered well enough so flies and moth-millers did not speck them. From Wordnik.com. [Across the Fruited Plain] Reference
With one lexington fayette urban county government in tenderizer ca and one shawn in the wristlet, cameroonian is one of the jealously pressingly slain calf unironed airily. From Wordnik.com. [POWET.TV] Reference
I circumscribed my stock of clothes as much as possible, having fallen into the rough-and-ready practice of washing them at night, and putting them on unironed in the morning. From Wordnik.com. [The Hawaiian Archipelago] Reference
Even though we had that much travelled look of unironed, faded and very casual clothes we looked almost formally dressed compared to some of the European travellers at the Miami. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference
The old woman had, too, the additional pleasure of telling Gervaise on her return that Mme Goujet had sent word that her linen must be returned to her at once, ironed or unironed. From Wordnik.com. [L'Assommoir] Reference
Maybe next time I can ask her to not do ironing for less money since I never iron my clothes, especially not my underwear but I doubt if she could stand the thought of delivering unironed underwear. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com Recent Updates] Reference
“He would not hear of my wearing it unironed despite the fact that there was not a wrinkle visible to my unpracticed eye. From Wordnik.com. [Slightly Married]
She was sitting on the gallery steps, wearing heavy Levi’s and an unironed men’s shirt she hadn’t bothered to tuck in and a bandanna wrapped tightly around her hair. From Wordnik.com. [The Glass Rainbow] Reference
Ruth came stamping down the back steps into her father’s kitchen, her hair frizzed out from her normally tight bun, the top button of her housecoat sticking up alone above the unironed lace collar. From Wordnik.com. [Picking Up the Pieces « A Fly in Amber] Reference
Something about the shoulders, too still, too stiff, as if they fought to keep from sagging down upon the unironed linen, made Gertie think of Job’s wife, a woman she had lately pondered much upon. From Wordnik.com. [The Dollmaker] Reference
“gaieties” which Hilo may offer; but I circumscribed my stock of clothes as much as possible, having fallen into the rough-and-ready practice of washing them at night, and putting them on unironed in the morning. From Wordnik.com. [The Hawaiian Archipelago] Reference
They looked clean, too, just unironed. From Wordnik.com. [Confession] Reference
Handsell had me unironed; and his cabin-boy, a poor weakly little lad, that could not stand much beating, being dead of that and a flux, and so thrown overboard without any more words being said about it -- (he was but. From Wordnik.com. [The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors...] Reference
I often wore them unironed. From Wordnik.com. [A Thrilling Sketch of the Life of the Distinguished Chief Okah Tubbee Alias, Wm. Chubbee, Son of the Head Chief, Mosholeh Tubbee, of the Choctaw Nation of Indians] Reference
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