in dishabille
Example Sentences
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He is angsty and brooding and petulant—a lithe musician who spends his days making ambient drone rock in dishabille.
From Slate ● Apr. 23, 2014
The arms were folded in dishabille resignation, as if to say: I know I'm stylish, but I don't need to prove it.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 4, 2013
They might well have failed in their errand, however, had it not been that Mr. Johnson was, in a manner of speaking, in dishabille, having left his gun at the hotel.
From Copper Streak Trail by Eugene Manlove Rhodes
Wherever they went, some pattened girl stopped to curtsy, or some footman in dishabille sneaked off.
From Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
At this moment Jack, also in dishabille, rushed in.
From Freaks on the Fells Three Months' Rustication by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
