Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being presentable.
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Examples
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The hair, the makeup, the clothing: they all got fixed, patted down into some inoffensive template of first lady presentability.
Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010
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The hair, the makeup, the clothing: they all got fixed, patted down into some inoffensive template of first lady presentability.
Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010
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The hair, the makeup, the clothing: they all got fixed, patted down into some inoffensive template of first lady presentability.
Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010
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The hair, the makeup, the clothing: they all got fixed, patted down into some inoffensive template of first lady presentability.
Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010
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And it is the ultimate un-presentability of global supremacy either in fact or in fantasy that allows for its figural presentation in the person of Cornwallis.
Projection, Patriotism, Surrogation: Handel in Calcutta 2006
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Although he was sensitive to slights, no twentieth-century politician was more careless of "image" (meaning a manufactured and spurious presentability); and for just that reason few have left images more enduring in the public memory.
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He possessed neither the intelligence of Gerry Adams nor the articulateness and presentability of a younger figure like Mary Lou McDonald or Michelle Gildernew.
Archive 2007-11-01 Johnny Guitar 2007
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He possessed neither the intelligence of Gerry Adams nor the articulateness and presentability of a younger figure like Mary Lou McDonald or Michelle Gildernew.
Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam? Johnny Guitar 2007
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Although he was sensitive to slights, no twentieth-century politician was more careless of "image" (meaning a manufactured and spurious presentability); and for just that reason few have left images more enduring in the public memory.
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A couple of the tracks sound like goofing off for the sake of goofing off, and adversely affect the presentability of the album.
The Champagne, To Golden Gardens (The Champagne, 2005) smg58 2006
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