Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Clad in dull colors; somberly dressed.
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Examples
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At 55, Mr. Akimoto seems an unlikely impresario, sober-suited and wearing thick-rimmed glasses.
Japan Goes Gaga Over a 92-Member Girl Group Andrew Joyce 2011
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Instead they made do with a sober-suited Paul Vaughan, chief executive of RWC2015, and a Q&A session involving Lawrence Dallaglio and Will Greenwood, hosted by a Kiwi comedian, James McOnie, who had been mugging up on the latest English headlines.
England launch World Cup 2015 with Daleks and Angel of the North | Robert Kitson 2011
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The dismal science attracts more sober-suited math geeks than poetic seekers.
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The image of one sober-suited Chinese millionaire posing for photographs with Biver while showing off a giant white ceramic watch on a rubber strap will stay with me for some time to come.
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In a gleaming theater called the Moranbong, dozens of sober-suited North Koreans — certainly specially selected for the audience — sat in rows watching a Mendelssohn Octet performance with four Philharmonic members and four local musicians.
Sunday Reading 2008
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His opponent, a sober-suited conservative, gets zero traction.
Poor But Sexy 2007
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Eccentric pop idol Michael Jackson swept down into Namibia early on Sunday to mingle with sober-suited heads of state and international business leaders at a southern African economic summit.
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In a sharp departure from the radical language of the ANC's underground days, a sober-suited Manuel told delegates South
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My darling was peculiar among women in this: her church-going dress was sober-suited; like a little gray nun, almost, she came down to me that morning.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873 Various
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(Laughter) For this land of ours is still -- "The land that freemen till, That sober-suited freedom chose, The land where, girt with friends or foes, A man may speak the things he will."
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