(n. pl.) Clothes worn under others, especially those worn next the skin for warmth.
Example Sentences:
(1) According to responses on the questionnaires, deficits in continence ranging from 'sometimes' to 'frequently' included lack of control of flatus (35.1 per cent), soiling of underclothing (22.0 per cent) and accidental bowel movements (5.3 per cent).
(2) This officer was quietly feasting with imaginary knives and forks; that group roamed around clutching Teddy Bears; one man stripped to his underclothes and proclaimed himself to be Mahatma Gandhi; another sat cramped in a corner clutching a champagne cork; one chanted, with his hands over an imaginary basket of eggs, Lord have mercy on us, Christ have mercy, Lord have mercy.
(3) The textile materials with reduced combustibility are chemically stable and do not release compounds in the contact aqueous medium, imitating the underclothes space.
(4) However, when intractable, continence nurse advisers are available to assist in the selection of suitable pads and underclothing.
(5) Of the responding women 85 (11.3%) experienced a urinary loss sufficient to necessitate the wearing of a sanitary napkin or change of underclothing several times a day.
Unmentionables
Definition:
(n. pl.) The breeches; trousers.
Example Sentences:
(1) The very possibility of a country leaving the single currency was so taboo as to be unmentionable as recently as a month ago.
(2) In silent dying rooms, hidden away in unmentionable and unseen places, thousands gasp out their last, their wishes ignored, unheard, their suffering unrecorded as death notices pretend they "passed away peacefully".
(3) They were very disappointed to discover that it was a fictional story, that the real people who inspired it hadn't fallen victim to any unmentionable disease - and, not least, that I was straight.
(4) Looming over all this is the great unmentionable: the cover the US provides for Israel's weapons of mass destruction.
(5) The Brontës are shown, with understated relish, as lonely, half-mad spinsters, surrounded by insufferable yokels and the unmentionable stench of death.
(6) King described these threats as either the "unimaginable and the unmentionable", but in the worst case there would be disorderly break-up of monetary union with disastrous consequences for the rest of the global economy.
(7) Assorted "wars", on terror, drugs, human traffickers or whatever will be lost and unmentionable horrors result.
(8) R is for religion "The great unmentionable evil at the centre of our culture is monotheism.
(9) The independent senator from Vermont is typically dismissed as a “ self-described socialist ” by those who doubt America’s appetite for policies seen as mainstream in much of the world but long-regarded as almost unmentionable in the land of the free.
(10) The great unmentionable is that humanity's most dangerous enemy resides across the Atlantic.
(11) The Note's screen is a mere 5 inch, an attempt to combine a phone and a tablet – with an "unmentionable" stylus.
(12) The book ran the full gambit of female unmentionables - menstruation, clitoral orgasm, frigidity - and transformed Lessing into an icon for women's liberation.
(13) On 24 April, a 70-year-old journalist, Gao Yu, was arrested, together with her son and four cats, for disclosing a party memorandum that listed seven "unmentionable topics" the press were told to avoid, including universal values, press freedom, citizens' rights and the party's historical aberrations.
(14) The great unmentionable in British politics (though frequently mentioned by me) is that the parties might have to form a government of national unity in such circumstances, to calm both the markets and the public mood.
(15) At the forefront of this recuperation was a new kind of aspirational history-writing – not a history written by and for rulers, but by a new kind of revisionist historian, such as Niall Ferguson or Andrew Roberts, who sought to legitimise the previously unmentionable, and in so doing to transform their approval of the imperial past into a form of present-day cultural capital, and forge their own careers in the process.
(16) Yet one subject that is unmentionable – and therefore untouchable – is the size of the NHS itself.
(17) The humor is quirky and filled with pop culture references (Gretchen works as a publicist for various awful celebrity types who trash photoshoots and tweet pictures of their unmentionables) and has a modern breeziness to it that you won’t find on any CBS sitcom.
(18) The Pentagon ranks it as a national security threat and, left unchecked, climate change is expected to cost the US economy billions of dollars every year – and yet it has proved the great unmentionable of this election campaign.
(19) Of course, an historic mercenary role is unmentionable, this time backing the latest US installed sectarian regime in Baghdad and re-branded ex-Kurdish “terrorists”, now guarding Chevron, Exxon Mobil, Marathon Oil, Hunt Oil et al.