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unbuttoned

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verb

past tense of unbutton

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Recent Examples of unbuttoned
Adjective
In the image, the 24-year-old can be seen wearing a completely unbuttoned red blouse, matching red pants, and matching stilettos. Emma Banks, InStyle, 21 Jan. 2026 She was accompanied on the red carpet by her husband, music producer Benny Blanco, who wore a black suit with an unbuttoned shirt and statement brooch. Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 12 Jan. 2026 Artisanal, electric energy has occupied the grand bones of this intoxicating city, with young creatives animating the unbuttoned cafés and bars filling its old town’s squares—the air always hot and heavy with wafts of arancini and zucchini fritti. Rosalyn Wikeley, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Jan. 2026 Curtis wore white pants, a black T-shirt, and an unbuttoned blue denim shirt and accessorized (well, used) a cane, apparently due to an injury. Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 5 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for unbuttoned
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unbuttoned
Adjective
  • One of the enduring images from the uprising of two months ago was endless unzipped black body bags lining the streets.
    Lily Moayeri, Rolling Stone, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Gisele Bündchen radiated in an unzipped, high-cut wetsuit and beachy waves for her new Garnier campaign.
    Christina Perrier, InStyle, 3 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Starting at 12,000 feet, a series of 11 parachutes unfurled to slow the capsule from several hundred miles-per-hour to a gradual 17–20 mph for splashdown in the Pacific Ocean.
    Glenn Garner, Deadline, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Felder reached into his backpack and unfurled a sign of his own.
    Eyal Press, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Skinny Pedro unfastened his seat belt and turned his seat around to face me.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Kelce unfastened the clasp on another necklace and then a third, before Chris Jones, his teammate for a decade, walked over and approached him.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 5 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • The unfolded detail does not go unnoticed and is very much respected and appreciated.
    Greta Cross, USA Today, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Flexible layouts adapt apps to the unfolded screen, making multitasking feel more natural.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 7 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • Rex, a 3-year-old wallaby, wandered away from the Lots of Love Farm in Williamstown after a gate was allegedly left unlatched overnight.
    Alexandra Koch, FOXNews.com, 31 Dec. 2025
  • Advertisement Stafford depressurized the cockpit, matching the vacuum inside to the vacuum outside so that the hatch would not blow open and fly free from interior air pressure when it was unlatched.
    Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 11 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • Though the couple’s house was well fortified, the suspect had managed to get in through an unlocked door.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2026
  • To turn it on, flip the safety switch to the unlocked position, then push down on the display at the end of the base cylinder.
    Andrew Gebhart, PC Magazine, 18 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Twelve students, including Brendan LaFave, the high-achieving kid from Ann Arbor, live in the three-story brown-brick house, which has white columns along its wide front porch.
    Emma Green, New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2026
  • The top is designed with horizontal pleated detailing and cap sleeves, while the bottoms offer a simple, wide-leg silhouette with side pockets and a drawstring to adjust the fit to your liking.
    Alicia Geigel, Southern Living, 17 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • The Times-Advocate newspaper reported the terms of the settlement Thursday after its attorney, seeking a court order to unseal the file, came across the settlement terms in an unsealed court file.
    Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Griffin had three prior unsealed arrests but no history of being an emotionally disturbed person, Tisch told reporters.
    Robert McGreevy, FOXNews.com, 11 Apr. 2026

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“Unbuttoned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unbuttoned. Accessed 22 Apr. 2026.

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