How To Use Skivvies In A Sentence
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Is the adjective skeevy somehow related to the slang noun for underwear, skivvies?
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
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The skivvies from the Cabinet Office come in, all lah-di-dah and arm's length. ‘How many of you ponces voted New Labour yesterday?’
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These lumpen skivvies need to understand who their betters are and dig into their pockets, surely.
Times, Sunday Times
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After the shoot was over, Curtis decided to strip down to her skivvies and wash off the makeup for some real footage.
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Because although he brought a welcome note of levity and color to the proceedings by popping up at intervals in leopard-skin skivvies and straight jacket and chains, and although Ellen and I had a great time coming up with theories, the play itself wasn't entirely clear on what he was actually doing there.
Ragtime
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Assistant engineer makes it sound rather grand, they were just called tape ops really, the skivvies of the recording studio.
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He got down to his skivvies and climbed in the shower.
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Cobblers became centurions, senators became skivvies, and so on.
Times, Sunday Times
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At dawn the next morning I stood in my skivvies on the balcony of my room and surveyed the restless sea.
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Their idea blossoms gradually into the film's central story, which has the womanly girls shedding their skivvies for the shoot.
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In upper-class households there was often a hierarchy of servants ‘below stairs', ranging from the butler to kitchen skivvies.
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But I still make him walk around at parties in his leopard print skivvies.
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We progress through his experiences as though carried in his pocket, attached to his dogtags, or tucked in his skivvies.
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There are the marble lists on shop stairwells, in stations, drapers and haberdashers, the names of tweenies and skivvies and draymen, and then the later additions from the second world war, the same names back again.
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These chambers sometimes get so hot that the rappers have stripped down to their skivvies to record.
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She said the new laws would protect Pakistani teenagers who were brought over to be little more than skivvies to an unknown husband and his family.
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Like the others, this trio was clad in their government-issue skivvies.
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Assistant engineer makes it sound rather grand, they were just called tape ops really, the skivvies of the recording studio.
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I imagine Beatrix eating organic vegetables and dancing around in hemp skivvies, but I can't get anywhere near her.
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For a decade now, La Roche's Luk briefs, boxers, panties and undershirts have been synonymous with comfy-cozy yet fully sexy skivvies.
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Undies, underwear, or skivvies were all deemed acceptable.
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I remember his raised eyebrows and the distinct embarrassment of being caught in my skivvies in front of a complete stranger.
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Just go to this link and find a short story that sends the shivers down to your skivvies.
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What's laughable is not the former dictator's skivvies, but military leaders' naivety about the media world we now live in.
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Dressing only in skivvies, or tunics, with no armour or protection other than their sword skills, they were outnumbered and outplayed.
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I've lived in New York City long enough to expect the unexpected and keep cool in the presence of insanity, but an Orthodox Jew cold busting his human beatbox, dressed only in his skivvies and swilling Jack Daniels, still feels to me worthy of the term "spectacle.
Patrick Egan: Family Feud: Teeth of the Sons
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Are they teachers, managers, social workers or skivvies?
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These chambers sometimes get so hot that the rappers have stripped down to their skivvies to record.
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They want to be treated with respect, not taken for granted as low paid skivvies.
