How To Use Buttoned-down In A Sentence
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a colorful character in the buttoned-down, dull-grey world of business
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The announcement even included a quote from the usually buttoned-down Peter Rice, chairman of entertainment at Fox Networks Group, in which he effused, "We love Ellen and understand and support her decision to bow out of 'Idol'.
Ellen DeGeneres out on "American Idol"; J-Lo in?
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Maybe your casual style doesn't fly in your buttoned-down workplace.
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Before Shula led Miami to its unprecedented 17-0 season in 1972 — a feat that further blurred any perceived disparity between teams with roots in the upstart AFL and those from the buttoned-down, established NFL — he was on the losing end of another football milestone.
After slow start in the AFL, Shula-led Dolphins flourished
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In reality, the fiery DeMint and buttoned-down McConnell are ideological soulmates.
Peter Dreier: GOP-Tea Party Rift Is a Myth
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Mr. Haroun, whose buttoned-down appearance lends him a professorial air, took the title of his film from a line of verse by the famed Martinique poet Aimé Césaire, who wrote "a screaming man is not a dancing bear.
The Stubborn Silence of 'A Screaming Man'
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He wore a blue buttoned-down shirt with the cuffs rolled halfway up his surprisingly ropey and thickly veined forearms.
A RODENT OF DOUBT
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A nasty battle has surfaced in the usually buttoned-down hotel industry, pitting Host Hotels & Resorts Inc.—the largest U.S. hotel owner—against a real-estate brokerage firm it hired to sell some of its hotels.
Host Hotels Sues Brokerage Firm
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They are a clean-cut, happy-looking couple in their fifties who are decidedly less buttoned-down than the other professionals in the group.
American Grace
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They are a clean-cut, happy-looking couple in their fifties who are decidedly less buttoned-down than the other professionals in the group.
American Grace
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He hired comedian Phyllis Diller in the early 1960s as a pitchwoman, breaking from the buttoned-down banking image of the era.
He Built Banc One Into a Potent Force
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They do exhibit a certain buttoned-down wit, though.
American Everyman
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We already knew Stamos could pull off scrubs thanks to his time on ER, but damn, he does the buttoned-down, rolled-up cuffs look quite well.
Annie Stamell: John Stamos Makes His Glee Debut As Dr. Carl, Raises Dentist Standards Everywhere
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And as the buttoned-down publisher learns Internet geekspeak, it is also finally forcing its mini-fiefdoms to speak to each other.
Bertelsmann's Online Onslaught
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My company was way less buttoned-down and closed-mouth than most, so the problem wasn't them, but me; I'd sucked down enough of the Kool-Aid by my mid-twenties to keep lots of myself under wraps and behind the veil, the way most corporate people do -- a stupid waste of creativity and human power.
Liz Ryan: Putting The 'Human' Back In HR, Part Two
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He had the distinguished look of a buttoned-down, wealthy tycoon who fed his rebellious streak in the shadowy edges of his life.
I.O.U.
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Just as its kindred discipline yoga has been embraced by buttoned-down lawyers and accountants, tai chi is no longer limited to hemp-clad New Agers who impose vegan diets on their pets.
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But for me, it was the legacy of Byron and the Shelleys — and thejuxtaposition of such larger-than-life characters in such a pristinebuttoned-down place that gave Lake Geneva its most powerful allure.
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Tonight he was splendid in fashionable buttoned-down mauve shirt and violet tie.
IN REMEMBRANCE OF ROSE
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And there's Bill Lee, a.k.a. "Spaceman," an iconoclastic cult hero to college-age Boston fans in the late '70s, a quintessentially flaky southpaw who once boasted of sprinkling marijuana on his breakfast cereal -- before the buttoned-down Red Sox brass exiled him to the Montreal Expos, in whose uniform he is (sadly) pictured in the card collection.
FOUND: Lots and lots of baseball cards
