(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"?
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.