dress down
Example Sentences
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“My late husband worked in fundraising and had learned to look beyond the surface, as many of his former company’s largest donors tended to dress down so as to not attract attention,” she said.
From MarketWatch • May 26, 2026
Something that I could dress down with more nontraditional tailoring.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 8, 2024
So can they now dress down a bit?
From BBC • Oct. 4, 2022
It’s worth the wait to see Wilson dress down a German ambassador as a prelude to America’s entrance in the war.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 29, 2021
Fair fight or not, she wasn’t going to let me dress down my father, not with language, not with anything.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
