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half-dressed

adjective

  1. partially clothed
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

One leaflet features a half-dressed East Asian woman who gave her address and promised "amazing sexual services" urging men to "come along and feel like a king".

From BBC

Seconds later, both men tumble out of the cell and into the walkway, where the attacker beats and stabs his half-dressed victim in an assault that moves back and forth in front of the cells.

Of course it did: With the power of the presidency, he was able to do much greater harm to a much greater number of people, so his past transgressions—the alleged assaults and forced kisses and deliberate walking in on half-dressed beauty pageant contestants—were no longer pressing news.

From Slate

Susie saw something in Midge from the moment she wandered drunkenly, heartbroken and half-dressed, onto the stage at the Greenwich Village nightclub.

From Salon

“I’m a young girl watching this man stand in this doorway, half-dressed with just his underwear on, pleading don’t kill him and don’t burn his house down,” she told me.

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