Meaning of sportsjacketed | Babel Free

Definitions

Adjective. [C2]

Examples

“Instead, it seemed as if we’d returned for a series of interviews to “Film 62”: there was the eager, sportsjacketed interviewer, starry-eyed and awkward in the face⟳ of a Famous Person, unfamiliar with modern styles of interviewing, either intimate or aggressive, asking questions worthy of the gossip columnist.”

“Her six months as Alasdair’s steady had been an introduction to a world ten thousand miles from the suburban serenity in which she had grown up; a world that took in not just the hot dirty intimacy of the tenement itself, but cafes and pubs and dance-halls and young men who bore scant resemblance to the bland sportsjacketed creatures of her crescent, her church, the library staff parties.”

“After walking up and down outside the shop⟳, peering in at the besuited and sportsjacketed dummies, I ventured inside, where the terms of the HP (hire⟳ purchase⟳, or installment plan⟳) agreement were smoothly spelled out for me by an extremely friendly salesman.”

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