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cladly dressed

cladly dressed adjective: scantily clad.

Adjective

cladly dressed (comparative more cladly dressed, superlative most cladly dressed)

  1. (nonstandard, proscribed, rare) Scantily clad.
    • Some of the elders had heard rumors that Nathaniel was watching television by himself and paying specific attention to programs that featured females who were cladly dressed.2011, Daniel E. Alto, Reflections from my Inkwell, →ISBN, page 120
    • With nakedness we find quite often the opposite of what the revealer expects to accomplish: the girl cladly dressed receives attention she is seeking but at cost to how she is perceived, a boy exposing his inner garment is unaware of the spiritual ramifications, news of infidelity or a checkered...2012, Marchella D. Beretta, Marching Towards Perfection: A Personal Inspirational Planner, →ISBN

Forms of cladly dressed

comparativemore cladly dressed
superlativemost cladly dressed

Origin of cladly dressed

Apparent confusion between scantily dressed and clad. Cladly does not otherwise appear in English.

Questions about cladly dressed

What does cladly dressed mean?
Cladly dressed means scantily clad.
What part of speech is cladly dressed?
Cladly dressed is an adjective.

Words near cladly dressed in the dictionary

  1. cladistical
  2. cladistically
  3. cladistics
  4. cladists
  5. cladium
  6. cladly dressed
  7. clado-
  8. cladobranch
  9. cladobranchs
  10. cladocarpic
  11. cladocarpous

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