unmentionables

Example Sentences

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Another four years on, Root was in hospital again, this time after taking blows to the unmentionables in the day-night Test in Adelaide.

From BBC • Dec. 4, 2025

An essential place of unmentionables — in a lot of ways, its purpose is clear, unchanged.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2022

Lewis, she talks about God, politics and other unmentionables, and gently exhorts her readers, as she does herself, to find joy in a bleak and chaotic world: a leftie guru of optimism.

From New York Times • Oct. 27, 2018

But there are men's unmentionables, too, including 18th-century shirts, which were considered underwear because they were worn next to the skin —only the collars and cuffs could decently be shown.

From US News • Apr. 13, 2016

I insisted we learn more, but she said I should stop bringing up unmentionables.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan