overdress

"I was wearing formal clothing – that taught me not to overdress in hot weather."

From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026

“It’s just flagrantly obnoxious to overdress in a workplace situation, especially when you’re a junior member,” said Gunn, best known for being a clear-eyed mentor on the fashion-design competition show “Project Runway.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 7, 2026

“Castelfranco tends to be less bitter and more tender than its fellow radicchios, so I try not to overdress it in a salad,” says Rand Rasheed, who grows it at One Leaf Farm.

From Seattle Times ● May 21, 2022

“The sweetness means it can take an acid nicely,” notes the chef, who instructs his staff to slightly overdress Little Gems because he finds the “juiciness” of the leaves slightly dilutes the dressing.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 18, 2022

He did not like jewels, and inclined to the opinion of a noble lord who once remarked coarsely, "The devil has nothing left to teach women who overdress themselves and coil their hair fantastically."

From Abb? Aubain and Mosaics by Prosper M?rim?e

As the head of a luxury marketing agency who overdresses, smokes, mocks political correctness and oozes meanness, she is the extreme version of the “Parisienne,” disseminating style and scorn in equal measure.

From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2020

They wear bodices and overdresses of the very palest pink, flowered with deep-pink roses.

From Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People by Constance D'Arcy Mackay

The first group to enter is the pale-violet group, ladies-in-waiting, who wear pale-violet bodices and overdresses over white.

From Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People by Constance D'Arcy Mackay

Court ladies in pale-yellow bodices and looped overdresses over white.

From Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People by Constance D'Arcy Mackay

She still overdresses, and makes eyes, and she nudges those who sit next her at table, but she is good-natured, says whatever comes into her head, and has a strong sense of humor.

From Unleavened Bread by Robert Grant

She made everyone else look overdone and overdressed, washing the Augean stables of Cannes clean.

From New York Times ● May 10, 2023

But many of us are still loyal to sweatpants, and perhaps less inclined to participate in the formal, overdressed dining rituals of our pre-pandemic lives.

From Salon ● Nov. 26, 2022

All four family members are overdressed throughout but it is Moira and David who make it an artform.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 16, 2020

However, his costume choices have attracted criticism in the past - including during a 2018 official visit to India, when his extensive range of traditional Indian outfits were mocked as "ridiculously overdressed".

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2019

Finally, Mrs. de Vries answers, overdressed as usual in a blue silk dress and straight-seamed stockings.

From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse

Doing the most: People made up for the past few years by overdressing in 2022.

From New York Times ● Dec. 31, 2022

We're overdressing her all the time, which I adore because it's not realistic at all, and we can do it and Darren loves it.

From Salon ● Dec. 21, 2022

Avoid the gruesome pitfalls of overdressing or underdressing.

From Slate ● Feb. 2, 2012

Saturday-Night Outfit: It depends where, but I always believe in overdressing.

From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2010

Formerly, overdressing in the country was reprobated as quite vulgar; but now, even persons of birth and fashion are guilty of this want of taste and sense.

From Tales and Novels — Volume 10 by Maria Edgeworth