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• v  undo the ties of
• a  with laces not tied
  teenagers slopping around in unlaced sneakers
• s  not under constraint in action or expression
  unlaced behavior in the neighborhood pub

• Mettlesome, high-strung, bursting into a boy's wounded tears or unlaced laughter, Roberts' Mark is a worthy foil.
• Three (King's General, Foxes, Sun) were costume pieces, rich with sex, lacy or unlaced.
• The boyish bowl cut has been replaced by long, highlighted locks and a Sporty Spice wardrobe of tight T shirts, baggy clamdiggers and unlaced Nikes.

• untie
• unbrace
• unlace
• untied
• unbuttoned

• tie
• laced

News & Articles

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• Without a home, but hardly without a vision
  Albany Ira McKinley, all 6 feet 4 and 270 pounds, lumbered across the hushed, carpeted vastness of the seventh floor of the State Library in baggy jean shorts, oversized T-shirt, unlaced white sneakers and L.A. Dodgers baseball cap flipped backward. He moved past the reference desk and dropped into an upholstered swivel office chair at a cubicle in front of a computer terminal. He leaned back ...
  July 10, 2013 - Albany Times Union

Quotes

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• Lady Murasaki in New York Times
  Lady Murasaki describes him at 17: "Over soft, layered white gowns he had only a dress cloak, unlaced at the neck. ...... lying there in the lamplight, against a pillar, he looked so beautiful that one could have wished him a woman."