shirt-sleeve
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.85 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Having an informal, relaxed appearance or approach, particularly in business.
noun
Example Sentences
- "He had a shirt-sleeve style of management."
- "The Exploration Cooling Garment shall allow a crewmember to maintain their nominal shirt-sleeve range of motion."
- "Not one of those rustic wassals of the Ouse of Widdlers, but ad his air curled and his shirt-sleaves tied up with pink ribbing as he led to the macy dance some appy country gal, with a black velvit boddice and a redd or yaller petticoat, a hormylu cross on her neck, and a silver harrow in her air!"
- "But Dick's necessity of behaving as he did was a projection of some submerged reality: he was compelled to walk there, or stand there, his shirt-sleeve fitting his wrist and his coat sleeve encasing his shirt-sleeve like a sleeve valve, his collar moulded plastically to his neck, his red hair cut exactly, his hand holding his small briefcase like a dandy—just as another man once found it necessary to stand in front of a church in Ferrara, in sackcloth and ashes."