thumb-creased

Updated: May 27, 2025

Then he went to the mirror and looked at himself with listless, unhappy interest. His tie, of former glory, was faded and thumb-creased it served no longer to hide the jagged buttonholes of his collar. He thought, quite without amusement, that only three years before he had received a scattering vote in the senior elections at college for being the best-dressed man in his class.

F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald - Tales of the Jazz Age