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
“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
Still, it’s hard to resist the temptation to overdress.
From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2020
"And, besides, I want you to trim my lace overdress with fresh ribbons; you will have too much to do to-morrow to attend to it."
From A Noble Name or D?nninghausen by Claire Von Gl?mer
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
They are maids of the court, who wear rose-pink bodices and overdresses over white.
From Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People by Constance D'Arcy Mackay
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
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
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
But the singer and the label parted company in 1979 after an overdressed disco-styled album, La Diva, made no impact.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 16, 2018
Whenever company came over for Sunday dinner, however, Sourmelina greeted them with the overdressed baby pinned to her shoulder, the perfect accessory.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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
There is even the danger that the boy will become a fop or a dandy, and that the girl will take to overdressing.
From Your Child: Today and Tomorrow by Sidonie Matzner Gruenberg
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