What's the difference between undergarments and unmentionables?

Undergarments


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Six subjects, allergic to the elastic in their undergarments, were patch test-negative to the rubber components and new elastic from the suppliers.
  • (2) The Antelope on Mitcham Road has a choice of three open fires where you can affix your undergarments.
  • (3) Each was dressed in both dry suit plus medium insulation undergarment (DS-M) and dry suit plus heavy insulation (DS-H) and immersed in 10 and 15 degrees C water for 3 h. In 10 degrees C water, through not significantly different, rectal temperature (Tre) at h 3 was slightly higher in M (DS-M 36.4 degrees C, DS-H 36.5 degrees C) compared with L (DS-M 35.9 degrees C, DS-H 36.3 degrees C), whereas mean skin temperature (Tsk) and metabolic rate (MR) were in general, slightly lower for M(DS-M 23.6 degrees C, 184 W; DS-H 25.5 degrees C, 147 W, respectively).
  • (4) Highly absorbent adult undergarments are helpful for managing many patients, but should not be used as the initial response to incontinence, and are best used in conjunction with more specific treatment whenever possible.
  • (5) Overall, 49% of cases and 39% of controls reported exposure to talc, via direct application to the perineum or to undergarments, sanitary napkins, or diaphragms, which yielded a 1.5 odds ratio (OR) for ovarian cancer (95% confidence interval [CI] 1.0-2.1).
  • (6) At the same time, the space suit – actually, more of a spacecraft made from cloth – is almost unendurable, especially the ultra-tight undergarments.
  • (7) In particular he confessed that he likes to wear female undergarments under his work suits, and have sex while wearing one of my nighties.
  • (8) A multi-compartmental thermoregulatory model was applied to data of ten resting clothed males immersed for 3 h in water at 10 and 15 degrees C. Clothing consisted of a dry suit and either a light or heavy undergarment, representing a total insulation of 0.15 (0.95) or 0.20 m2 degrees CW-1 (1.28 clo), respectively.
  • (9) It is inconceivable for a country to open its borders for the importation of used underwear – to allow our women to wear undergarments that other women in other countries have used and discarded."
  • (10) Prevention and reinfection via fomites was studied by means of a single blind parallel study comparing the effect of soaking undergarments in the amphoteric biocide Tego 103G with the effect of a placebo soak.
  • (11) A rapid increase in innovation and design led by Schaffer helped the company persuade shoppers to pay that little bit more for their undergarments and fight off tough competition.
  • (12) A tight-fitting crewneck undergarment (U) and a loose-fitting shirt (S) were studied as part of a commonly used clothing ensemble (Itot = 0.22 m2 K W-1).
  • (13) "From now on there can be no slogan or image whatsoever on undergarments even good-natured ones.
  • (14) The patient had previous dermatitis underneath the elastic portions of her undergarments.
  • (15) This contamination was traced to several contaminated space suit undergarments.
  • (16) It was determined that IPPD is added to elastic material used in some elastic trim on undergarments in the United States.
  • (17) Marrying the ultimate in comfort and cured meat, J&D’s Bacon Scented Underwear represents the gold standard of meat-scented luxury undergarments,” says the Seattle-based food company behind the porky pants.
  • (18) adds brisk, dutiful Jenny, who is a dab hand at this "uncooperative uterus" lark following a year spent clanging around in the undergarments of every pregnant female in E14.
  • (19) Blood routinely covers gowns during surgery and often contaminates surgeons' undergarments and skin.
  • (20) Or what if my family’s weekly budget hadn’t been able to stretch far enough to accommodate replacing a few blood-soaked undergarments and those pantyliners?

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.

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