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  • adjective Describing someone in an occupation that requires a uniform, such as a member of the police force or military.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective dressed in a uniform

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Examples

  • It is an odd world indeed where you call the uniformed military leftist.

    "He isn't seeking to perfect Swift-boating, he's seeking to end it." Ann Althouse 2008

  • You hit all of the major talking point insults in your short post, e.g. you call those who oppose the bill "nutters"; you attack the oppositions 'intelligence with the term "uniformed" which is just a code word for stupid or ignorant; and you even work in the insulting term teabaggers into your rant.

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local LikeForLike 2009

  • You hit all of the major talking point insults in your short post, e.g. you call those who oppose the bill "nutters"; you attack the oppositions 'intelligence with the term "uniformed" which is just a code word for stupid or ignorant; and you even work in the insulting term teabaggers into your rant.

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local denverlouie 2009

  • Why on earth are we pandering to these PACT priorities, which results in uniformed officers being reduced to litter pickers or dog shit scooper uppers?

    Through The Looking Glass « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010

  • This was the old fight between the army, who knew better, and the “rosewater dreamers” in the Indian office, who called their uniformed adversaries “butchers, sots determined to exterminate the noble redmen, and foment wars so they had employment.”

    EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010

  • The armed services don't make the rules, the Congress does and in the case of DADT, the rule is not counter gay, it is pro social order within the confines of this great experiment called the uniformed services.

    Running with the right pack Steven Barnes 2010

  • At this point, a librarian intervenes and calls the uniformed men aside.

    February 2006 2006

  • It did not take great courage for Summerskill not to call the uniformed police, waiting off campus — just shrewdness and an awareness of the dialectics of over-reaction.

    Trouble at San Francisco State: An Exchange Windmiller, Marshall 1968

  • Summerskill remained cool, cancelled all classes, but didn't call the uniformed police.

    Trouble at San Francisco State: An Exchange Windmiller, Marshall 1968

  • While all this was going on, the verger, if we may so call a uniformed gentleman in attendance, made himself busy in going from nurse to nurse collecting the baptismal garments.

    Through Finland in Carts

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