overdress
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"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
Still, it’s hard to resist the temptation to overdress.
From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2020
Like the also-new Millie’s in Spring Valley, the Salt Line is a fish house that doesn’t overdress for success.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 28, 2017
But I am inclined to think that in the Fifties there was a natural tendency to overdress, to over-decorate, to overdo almost everything.
From In the Footprints of the Padres by Charles Warren Stoddard
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
The bride-maids were all dressed in a uniform of white tarletan, trained, with overdresses of the same, rose-colored sashes and bows, and rose wreaths on their heads.
From Victor's Triumph Sequel to A Beautiful Fiend by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
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
If a more satiny look than cheesecloth gives is wished, let the overdresses be of light-colored cambric with the glazed side turned outward.
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
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
A skyscraper of a man with dizzying charisma, Mr. Ellis, 6-foot-3, had overdressed for the day in jeans, a Comme des Garçons striped shirt, a slate jacket and sneakers the blinding white of new veneers.
From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2021
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
Literary acoustic and piano numbers are gracefully brushed with elegant strings without feeling overdressed.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 13, 2018
Mother is wearing a simple white dress—like a country bride wearing a hand-me-down, I suddenly think, and I feel a rush of panic that we have overdressed, all of us.
From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
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
One of the most common errors home cooks make with salad is overdressing it, says Andrew Taylor, a chef and owner of Eventide Oyster Co. in Portland, Maine.
From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 2021
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
There are certain aspects of a foreign watering-place with which we have nothing to do here, such as the gambling and the overdressing of a certain class, but all is externally most respectable.
From Manners and Social Usages by Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood
