Definition of "unbuttoned" []

• Not buttoned. (adjective)
• Free and unrestrained in expression: unbuttoned humor. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "And by "unbuttoned", I mean, seething, foaming at the mouth, climbing the walls, scratching my eyes out/ears bleeding, crazy."
• "All Purcell's choruses, however, are not of Handelian mould, for he wrote many that are sheer loveliness from beginning to end, many that are the very voice of the deepest sadness, many, again, showing a gaiety, an "unbuttoned" festivity of feeling, such as never came into music again until"
• "I'm annoyed that I seem not to have taken a picture of the "unbuttoned" tie, or maybe it just somehow failed to make it to my USB drivestick."