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sleeveless
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
sleeveless
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a sleeveless dress (=without any sleeves)
▪ She was photographed wearing a figure-hugging sleeveless dress.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Black sleeveless T-shirt, black shorts, no shoes.
▪ Even in this weather he was wearing a sleeveless vest.
▪ He was wearing only a sleeveless vest and a pair of short pants that reached almost to his bony knees.
▪ Her floor-length ice-blue satin dress was sleeveless and had a drop waist.
▪ Really, she could wear sleeveless dresses if she wanted to.
▪ She bared more of her body, in a sleeveless sheath that hit just below the knees.
▪ The jeans and sleeveless T-shirt were serviceable.
▪ Waistcoats or sleeveless pullovers sometimes worn with suits, though you couldn't see them when the top button was done up.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sleeveless

Sleeveless \Sleeve"less\, a. [AS. sl[=e]fle['a]s.]

  1. Having no sleeves.

  2. Wanting a cover, pretext, or palliation; unreasonable; profitless; bootless; useless. [Obs.]
    --Shak.

    The vexation of a sleeveless errand.
    --Bp. Warburton.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sleeveless

Old English sliefleas, slyflease; see sleeve (n.) + -less.

Wiktionary
sleeveless

a. 1 Of a garment, having no sleeves. 2 (context obsolete English) Wanting a cover, pretext, or palliation; unreasonable; profitless; useless.

WordNet
sleeveless

  1. adj. having no sleeves; "sleeveless summer dresses" [ant: sleeved]

  2. unproductive of success; "a fruitless search"; "futile years after her artistic peak"; "a sleeveless errand"; "a vain attempt" [syn: bootless, fruitless, futile, vain]

Usage examples of "sleeveless".

It was sleeveless, with a scooped neck and a softly full torso that would cling around the bust and then float out in an ageless style that fell to the floor.

Her new costume now consisted of three pieces, a chaddar a yard and a half long, one end of which was tucked into her skirt and the other draped over her head, a tiny sleeveless bodice, and a skirt a few inches long.

She was wearing a sleeveless navy dress with cream-colored dupatta scarf draped over her shoulders.

I sprayed and lotioned myself with Ivoire de Balmain, and selected a sleeveless black linen dress that swirled down to midcalf, mint green quilted leather flats, and small matching shoulder bag.

He wore mail made of gold links and a sleeveless tunic of velvet lined with lyng fur.

Carr wore a sweat-soaked sleeveless T-shirt, jeans, and black biker boots, the guard was nattily dressed in a blue pinstripe suit and red power tie, his only concession to the heat being the lack of a vest.

For a moment Keill lost sight of Oni - easy enough to do, among fifteen young people all dressed in shorts and sleeveless shirts.

Impatient hands pushed the sleeveless dress off her shoulders and Pilar lowered her arms to let it slide to the floor, glad to be rid of the hampering garment.

And though she was tired, when she put on one of her trim new skirts and that classic white sleeveless shirt, then the taupe heels, a thrill ran through her.

The color was a wonderful taupe gray and had a matching sleeveless V-neck shell.

She wore a sleeveless gown of indigo blue that flowed ungathered to the floor.

The single, sleeveless, tuniclike garment that she wore, fell scarcely to her knees and as she bestrode the No-van warrior, it often flew back until her thighs, even, were exposed.

Joscelin wore his own attire, dove-grey shirt and trousers with a long, sleeveless mandilion coat of the same drab color over it.

He also wore a sleeveless manteau, open at the front, and satiny sash wound around a slim waist, all in his chosen color.

He also wore a sleeveless manteau, open at the front, and a satiny sash wound around his flat, slender midsection.