What's the difference between underpants and underwear?

Underpants


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Shapiro, 50, said: "I always think of Steve Bell [of the Guardian] and his cartoons of John Major wearing his underpants outside his trousers.
  • (2) The suspect, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, hid the device in his underpants, and has since been jailed for life.
  • (3) It has a slightly bemused expression and wears its underpants over its trousers.
  • (4) The 'underpants bomber', Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who studied at University College London.
  • (5) He scaled the wall and ran though the rain in his underpants calling for help.
  • (6) Small Talk is contractually obliged to ask what colour underpants you're wearing today... Erm, [sounds understandably cautious] they're a pair of grey Y-fronts.
  • (7) The show will also see him discuss topics including "pogonophobia, underpants and the human condition", pognophobia being a fear of beards – something Paxman is well versed in following the public outcry at his beard-sporting last year.
  • (8) She gets real about bodies In Obvious Child , Jenny Slate's character Donna is frank about her ladyparts; her first stand up act begins with, "I used to hide what my vagina does to my underpants."
  • (9) I would really recommend this book to my friend Jackson because he loves Captain Underpants books and I think he would really like this.
  • (10) The men stripped off to their underpants and lay under a blanket in a PET scanner.
  • (11) So that's what I like about this book and what I don't like about CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS AND THE ATTACK OF THE TOILETS!!!
  • (12) Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation has aggressively defended the publication of pictures of Saddam Hussein in his underpants by the Sun and the New York Post in 2005, following suggestions that the publisher of the tabloids could face investigation in the US over payments made to obtain them.
  • (13) On hearing the news, the two made arrangements to fly to Cern, a decision fraught with concerns over the cost of extending Higgs's Saga travel insurance and their combined stocks of clean underpants.
  • (14) Despite the commercial and critical success of Hilary Mantel's novels last year, not a single "literary" title makes the top 20, with just Julia Donaldson's children's book The Gruffalo, Claire Freedman & Ben Cort's Aliens Love Underpants and the late Maeve Binchy's Minding Frankie flying the flag for the UK and Ireland's writers in the top 20.
  • (15) John Major didn't tuck his shirt into his underpants.
  • (16) My father worked in the prison service all his life as a psychologist, and said that whenever you put a suggestion box in any of the wings, of any prison, you'd always get back: "Why can't we have brown underpants?"
  • (17) Only Allen's "insecurities" kept her from twerking in underpants alongside them: "I actually rehearsed for two weeks trying to perfect my twerk, but failed miserably," she said.
  • (18) So far more than 34,400 members have joined and we've collected a blizzard of pink underpants.
  • (19) She posed naked in London's Reform Club for Penthouse magazine, and published a book of photographs under the title Rock Stars In Their Underpants, which was described by Andy Warhol as "the greatest work of art in the last decade".
  • (20) Researchers have shed light on the chemistry that bonds one person to another by taking brain scans of men being stroked while in their underpants.

Underwear


Definition:

  • (n.) That which is worn under the outside clothing; underclothes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Weiner resigned in 2011 after sending a picture of himself in his underwear to a 21-year-old woman in Seattle that subsequently ended up on the internet.
  • (2) If you are really unsure as to what’s acceptable, then just don’t do it, or go in wearing your underwear.
  • (3) A continuous flow of men goes past the block, while young women in black and red underwear pose on high stools behind windows with red awnings.
  • (4) Players were warned before this year's tournament that officials would be rigorously enforcing its rules on "almost entirely white" clothing – meaning that the bright underwear, coloured soles and conspicuously contrasting trim spotted in previous years would be outlawed.
  • (5) Yet its outrage dims when the models – the same models who appear in the usual shows, mind – are walking on the runway in underwear as opposed to haute couture.
  • (6) Behind the dancing girls and schmaltzy lyrics that usually characterise pop songs, these men act as the all-oppressing eye of the industry: telling female singers that weight loss and sexual objectification are the only feasible routes to stardom; stripping down women in music videos to their underwear while leaving their male counterparts untouched.
  • (7) For instance; hesitant to go to a hot spring, or on a trip with friends (76%), hesitant to go to a clinic or a hospital for physical check-ups and common illness (74%), troublesome to wear special underwear (69%), inconvenient because ordinary clothes cannot be worn (56%), distressed when viewing own body (52%), unable to dress in thin clothes in hot summer season (50%), imbalance of the breasts (49%), inconvenient to participate in sports (47%).
  • (8) Security sources have told news agencies that it was a step up in levels of sophistication from the original underwear bomb that was used in a failed attempt to blow up an airliner over Detroit on Christmas Day in 2009.
  • (9) The chaddi [underwear] symbolises vulgarity, something Muthalik's men indulged in when they molested the girls in Mangalore, and pink adds shock value.
  • (10) The gendered nature of posts – from pictures of me in underwear to comments about how fertility affects my decision-making – also shows we’ve still a long way to go to be a movement that practises the equality it preaches.
  • (11) Harris played with the underwear of another witness, a well-known British celebrity, as she recorded a TV interview with him in the mid-1990s.
  • (12) I told them that the ladies prefer a man in a suit to one in baggy trousers, with visible underwear and garish "trainers".
  • (13) Two weeks after the video of Garner went viral, building residents filmed the NYPD dragging a Brooklyn grandmother out of her apartment in her underwear.
  • (14) Seeing him strut his stuff, actually quite human, you were conscious that here was a straight man of mixed heritage who wore women’s underwear while channelling Jimi Hendrix.
  • (15) Scientists have developed underwear with built-in electrodes that deliver small electric shocks to combat bed sores in patients who are in a coma or who have injuries that have immobilised them.
  • (16) Asiri is believed to have built the device his brother used in an abortive assassination attempt on Saudi Arabia's deputy interior minister and the underwear bomb a Nigerian man tried to detonate over the US in 2009.
  • (17) He was sitting in his underwear, of course, but he never let his focus shift to the absurdity of the situation.
  • (18) A former Fox News employee told the Daily Beast : “One time he asked me if I was wearing underwear, and was he going to see anything ‘good’.” Sherman published the accounts of six women who claimed harassment by Ailes.
  • (19) There is a lot of, 'You will be expected to be in your underwear', or, 'You will be naked.'"
  • (20) But what else could people do faced with someone who is known universally as the "underwear bomber"?

Words possibly related to "underpants"