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dishabille

NOUN
  1. the state of being carelessly or partially dressed

How To Use dishabille In A Sentence

  • She was as angry as Caitlin was, but her anger was directed toward Crane, whom she saw as the cause for her sudden state of dishabille.
  • We are asked by the author, a biographer not only of Charles Dickens but of London too, to contemplate the novelist unbuttoned, in peep-show dishabille.
  • The first time we meet Victoria, she is wretching her guts into the toilet with her mother standing above her in dishabille, smoking a cigarette into her face while threatening to throw her out of the house. Kent Haruf discusses Plainsong
  • Why should anyone, child or adult, in unwitting dishabille be used as a spectacle?
  • These two sites, with fat files of stars, listed in alphabetical order by first name, offer a synoptic pictorial history of actresses in various states of dishabille.
  • There are exquisite touches, executed with extraordinary skill: the allegorically suggestive tear in the curtain; the artist's helpless dishabille; the uniquely knowing expression on the face of the central woman.
  • Every now and then some would-be curmudgeon rises up on his hind legs and yowls at the sky that the latest form of social networking is a blight on the cultural landscape and proves that people have nothing better to do than post pictures of their pets in various shocking forms of dishabille. MIND MELD: How Does Blogging and Social Networking Affect the Publishing Industry?
  • These two sites, with fat files of stars, listed in alphabetical order by first name, offer a synoptic pictorial history of actresses in various states of dishabille.
  • If we trust Le Pautre, the figure was covered by a vine, but both Simon Thomassin, who engraved the figure in 1689, and Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, who drew it in 1774, record him in a state of total dishabille.
  • Why should anyone, child or adult, in unwitting dishabille be used as a spectacle?
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