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half-naked

British  

adjective

  1. partially clothed

    a half-naked body

"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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Village by Lake Como cracks down on half-naked tourists.

From MarketWatch Jul. 8, 2026

Veteran Austrian snowboard star Benjamin Karl said thoughts of retirement can wait after he retained his Olympic men's parallel giant slalom title before throwing himself half-naked onto the snow.

From Barron's Feb. 8, 2026

The email - sent by the Dutch public prosecution service to the teaching hospital where Fouad L studied - described previous "worrying behaviour", including him found "half-naked in the garden on a pile of leaves".

From BBC Sep. 29, 2023

At this rate, it would not surprise me if the season finale had Logan railing at the heavens while wandering half-naked in a superstorm.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 2, 2021

And in the half-light of evening the dung carts had come out, attended by half-naked slaves whose task it was to shovel up the steaming piles left by elephants both great and small.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

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