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

Still, it’s hard to resist the temptation to overdress.

From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2020

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 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

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

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 eight bridesmaids wore dresses of white corded silk, alike in every particular, with overdresses of white illusion, sashes of white silk arranged in a succession of loops from the waist downward, forming graceful drapery.

From Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis by Benjamin Perley Poore

And the older guests, slightly overdressed for the occasion, can be seen smuggling their ties back into their pockets.

From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2024

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

“Death in Venice” both satirizes and relishes upper-class Venetian tourism of the early 20th century, with a patient camera that settles, uncomfortably if nauseatingly, on an overdecorated hotel and its overdressed guests.

From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2021

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

From The Guardian ● Nov. 16, 2020

With his red dashiki and fake-silk slippers, he looked jolly, if not slightly overdressed.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

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

She was a woman who knew overdressing spells disaster.

From Fast as the Wind A Novel by Nat Gould