half-dressed

British  

adjective

1. partially clothed

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Example Sentences

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.

From Los Angeles Times

“Some of the other legislators, I was surprised that they came half-dressed, because they forgot to wear their hoods,” he said.

From New York Times

There were new gay magazines like Attitude, for which he photographed Tony Blair, and Butt, which printed his images of half-dressed fashion designers on pink paper, like a not-safe-for-work Financial Times.

From New York Times