ADJECTIVE
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moderately formal; requiring a dinner jacket
he wore semiformal attire
a black-tie dinner
How To Use black-tie In A Sentence
- TO COVER an elegant, black-tie Christmas party for Town and Country, New York writer John Kelso (John Cusack) finds himself knee deep in Southern eccentrics -- and embroiled in a murder case. Southern Discomfort
- a black-tie dinner
- The Democratic mayor has thrown block parties for the masses and black-tie affairs for the elite.
- From pastels to bold shades of the rainbow, color came back with a vengeance at the Oscars, Hollywood's ultimate black-tie and often black dress affair.
- However, there is nothing worse than being inappropriately underdressed at a black-tie only affair.
- Marshall set only one condition on his gift: No black-tie dinners in his honor.
- it was a black-tie function
- Dressing in black-tie for the evening was Mayor Bill White, who with his wife Andrea White, hosted the Mayor's Reception for honorees and guests.
- Instead of black-tie fund-raising dinners, the whole passel of these incumbents ought to be sitting at America's kitchen tables, listening to reality… and responding.
- Just three years old, this black-tie rivals its senior benefit galas for glam, grace and style.