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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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In the cinema she cried at the movie's climax, when Norma weaved through a crowd outside her house to find her half-dressed husband and mother in the room.

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Yet here she actually did attain a sweaty sense of connection in another oldie, “Summerboy,” which she sang while slashing at an electric guitar as half-dressed dancers writhed around her under a bank of clubby red lights.

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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".

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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.

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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.

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