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  • adjective Without a prominent chest.

Etymologies

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chest +‎ -less

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Examples

  • The public teachers have guerilla tactics for covert weaving of truth into chestless curricula, not least being the forging of relationships of trust.

    Democrats resegregate DC school system. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009

  • There's the "frowning, chestless, young-old" man who watched the game disconsolately; the woman with the blue Northeastern jacket who sits arrogantly behind the Orioles dugout, staring at the sky and French-inhaling; the army officers and priests and bartenders.

    David Margolick: John Updike, Hall of Famer 2009

  • He was a chestless youth of the type that has grown so painfully prevalent in our land since the soft-hearted abolishment of the beech-rod of revered memory; of that all too familiar type whose proofs of manhood are cigarettes and impudence and discordant noise, and whose national superiority is demonstrated by the maltreating of all other races.

    Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers Harry Alverson Franck 1921

  • After the First World War, women bound their breasts and flapper girls all looked chestless, like pretty schoolboys.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Vicki Woods 2012

  • This chestless little bitch has a few talk radio personalities to contend with, and he just can't take it.

    Latest Articles Yahoo News 2010

  • This chestless little bitch has a few talk radio personalities to contend with, and he just can't take it.

    Latest Articles Yahoo News 2010

  • But these chestless men the Party puts up are only the shadows cast by the compromises it has made within itself.

    AMERICAN DIGEST 2008

  • But these chestless men the Party puts up are only the shadows cast by the compromises it has made within itself.

    AMERICAN DIGEST 2008

  • But these chestless men the Party puts up are only the shadows cast by the compromises it has made within itself.

    Nice Deb 2008

  • a pasty-faced, chestless youth, even then under the influence of cocaine, another was an old, bewhiskered hobo, while the third was unquestionably a Chinaman.

    The Mucker Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912

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