What's the difference between underwear and undies?

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"?

Undies


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Meanwhile, efforts to keep Microsoft at the cutting edge of the digital age have not always inspired the undying love of Microsoft shareholders.
  • (2) Both dyed and undyed sutures were consistently better than surgical gut with respect to pliability, strength, ease of passage, ease of tying, fraying, knot security, and overall handling.
  • (3) Wild Words of Sport (@WWofSport) @Simon_Burnton Nadal, with his caveman grunting, his undie-picking, is a visceral beast.
  • (4) No, I’m really not pleased to see you The Thunderwear holster … all the comfort of having a gun in your undies.
  • (5) For Max Hastings, as for Gove, the looming threat of a German Europe justified Britain's cause in the first world war and gives undying lustre to our boys' sacrifice in the trenches.
  • (6) In Bowman's layer and the adjacent stroma, there was often an abrupt transition from fluorescent to new, undyed connective tissue.
  • (7) The ones who turn up at your conferences, sit on your councils and vote undying resistance to anything the Department of Health – under any government, Labour or coalition – proposes.
  • (8) I don't believe I've ever owned a pair of red undies, let alone worn any.
  • (9) Pink undies drying in the cell of a teenager in a dirty prison, feminine and delicate like those of my teenage nieces.
  • (10) This study evaluates the biocompatibility of dyed and undyed transparent PMMA lens haptics.
  • (11) His decisive break with Christianity and subsequent undying fealty to the Islamic empire clearly then occurred at the White House Easter prayer breakfast, where he welcomed the esteemed guests as his " brothers and sisters in Christ ".
  • (12) Even Gerard Butler, who at one point seemed primed to take over from Bruce Willis as Hollywood's go-to tough guy, has found it easier to make a name for himself outside the action genre, in the undyingly star-focused world of romantic comedy.
  • (13) At the risk of a deluge of emails, I'd even contend that the Quo's undying popularity shines penetrating light on our national character.
  • (14) I’m an activist, not an alpha male, and I place myself under the orders of the majority.” Members of his close-knit team of 60 people, who have mostly worked out of cramped offices with curling carpets and broken doorbells, often profess undying loyalty.
  • (15) Orwell, to his undying credit, realised that the enemy was totalitarianism in its totality.
  • (16) The classic thing: the last refuge of the undying romantic.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Perry’s World Leaders Attend The Marriage Of Alan Measles And Claire Perry, 2009.
  • (17) Swiss textile giant Schoeller has developed a fabric that administers drugs to the surface of your skin over time, and thinks the best place to put it is in your undies – as those are the garments you’re least likely to forget to put on.
  • (18) Friends are, in fact only too eager to point out Drake’s undying enthusiasm for most things, principally music, during his two years at Cambridge, his own musical progress being most spirited.
  • (19) It was found that non-target cells (red rhodamine fluorescence) segregated from the undyed target cells, forming discrete areas containing the two cell types.
  • (20) They come to worship at the Goddess of Fire temple, where a flame of natural gas flickers undyingly next to a stream of water.

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