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

But Ali Bongo re-emerged as a more reserved figure, attempting to dress down and travelling to campaign in the provinces.

From BBC • Aug. 30, 2023

“It was a dress down that — I was lost. That’s been my big downfall. I’m a flannel mouth. John Houseman called me a flannel mouth when I was in school.”

From New York Times • Dec. 11, 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