half-naked
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3.0
- adjective
- /hæfˈneɪkɪd/
- NSFW
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semidesnudo
- There below, in the narrow earthen courtyard, half naked children were at play.
- a half-naked woman
- a half-naked man
- a half-naked girl
There below, in the narrow earthen courtyard, half naked children were at play.
- There below, in the narrow earthen courtyard, half naked children were at play.
- You're like, oh, hello, why are you half naked?
- When your entire Instagram is you half naked, that's not you being body positive, just to be clear.
- In the morning she woke me up and threw me out and I was half asleep, half naked.
- It was Nathaniel was like half naked, looking the other way.
- And she spends half the book in a big battle fighting half naked.
- It is a definite standard that you're not marketing your body half naked on the Internet.
- So I would say put that at the beginning to like there was this guy a long time ago and he he ran this marathon half naked.
Examples
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Why are you staying up looking at pictures of a half-naked model?
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In the hot summer, the house felt stuffy, and I ended up lounging around half-naked to stay cool.
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And the poor child was running around half-naked, like she was living in the wild.
Fiction book (2000) -
Do you see me standing here in front of you, half-naked?
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She was running around half-naked in his living room.
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In that quick motion, I caught sight of her half-naked figure, well-formed, in a word, beautiful.
Fiction book (1996) -
The door opened, and a sweaty, muscle-bulging, half-naked man looked out at me.
Fiction book (1999) -
Non-Christians, in contrast, were half-naked and living in a dark, ramshackle hut.
Academic text (2003) -
The actors always appeared half-naked or dressed in rags, wrapped in garbage, with plastic bags covering their feet.
Academic text (2014) -
Fires burn on the broad marble steps, half-naked kids sleep on filthy blankets below the immense columns.
Fiction book (1995)
Synonyms
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6.5
Wearing very few clothes that barely cover the body
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4.6
Wearing only some clothes and showing parts of the body
Partly without clothes so some skin shows
Partly clothed so more of the body can be seen than usual
Wearing too little clothing for the weather or situation
A person who is not wearing any clothes
Not wearing clothes on a part of the body
Not covered by clothes and showing skin
How Clothed
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Half-naked joins half- meaning 'partly' and naked meaning 'without clothes', so it describes someone who is only partly dressed.