sportsjacketed
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
30
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "Instead, it seemed as if we’d returned for a series of interviews to “Film 62”: there was the eager, sportsjacketed interviewer, starry-eyed and awkward in the face of a Famous Person, unfamiliar with modern styles of interviewing, either intimate or aggressive, asking questions worthy of the gossip columnist."
- "Her six months as Alasdair’s steady had been an introduction to a world ten thousand miles from the suburban serenity in which she had grown up; a world that took in not just the hot dirty intimacy of the tenement itself, but cafes and pubs and dance-halls and young men who bore scant resemblance to the bland sportsjacketed creatures of her crescent, her church, the library staff parties."
- "After walking up and down outside the shop, peering in at the besuited and sportsjacketed dummies, I ventured inside, where the terms of the HP (hire purchase, or installment plan) agreement were smoothly spelled out for me by an extremely friendly salesman."
Etymology
From sportsjacket + -ed.