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  • adjective not stitched

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un- +‎ stitched

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Examples

  • I had the same issue and later came "unstitched" because of shoddy work.

    Mary Shelley Had NO IDEA 2008

  • Bell Potter Securities Ltd senior client adviser Stuart Smith said heavy falls in commodity prices overnight wiped 73 points of the London Metal Exchange and "unstitched" BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto's trading on the local bourse.

    NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2011

  • However, one way in which gender distinctions remain is that men don the ihram, the white unstitched pilgrim's garb, while women are freer to wear other forms of modest clothing, including colorful national or cultural dresses.

    Zahra N. Jamal, Ph.D.: Hajj Diaries: The Multiple Dimensions Of Muslim Pilgrimage Ph.D. Zahra N. Jamal 2011

  • However, one way in which gender distinctions remain is that men don the ihram, the white unstitched pilgrim's garb, while women are freer to wear other forms of modest clothing, including colorful national or cultural dresses.

    Zahra N. Jamal, Ph.D.: Hajj Diaries: The Multiple Dimensions Of Muslim Pilgrimage Ph.D. Zahra N. Jamal 2011

  • A native of an affluent business community in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, Mr. Chidambaram keeps close ties to his roots, often wearing a traditional "veshti," an unstitched white cloth tied at the waist and falling to the ankles.

    India Ruling Party Ponders Leadership Amol Sharma 2011

  • Life under him will clearly be illuminating at times, the football refreshingly attack-minded and exhilarating when it clicks, but there will be occasions such as this when his team become unstitched.

    Chelsea on message but André Villas-Boas needs to work on method 2011

  • "Un ourlet décousu" (= 'a hem coming undone/unstitched ') "et qui commence à s'effilocher" (and starting to fray) … wouldn't be that bad for Jean-Marc on an ordinary day.

    agrafer - French Word-A-Day 2010

  • The city unstitched is paltry sutures, yet the subway map coils serpentine

    The Edge of the World Paul McQuade 2011

  • Her self was an abandoned sampler, half the letters unstitched, the picture in the middle still vague.

    Secrets of a Good Samaritan Cynthia Crossen 2010

  • Her self was an abandoned sampler, half the letters unstitched, the picture in the middle still vague.

    Secrets of a Good Samaritan Cynthia Crossen 2010

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