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

“The sweetness means it can take an acid nicely,” notes the chef, who instructs his staff to slightly overdress Little Gems because he finds the “juiciness” of the leaves slightly dilutes the dressing.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 18, 2022

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

From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2020

So it was well for me to make a note of the date of the "sumptuary law," that I might not some day outrageously overdress a character.

From Life on the Stage by Clara Morris

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

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

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 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

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

From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2024

Or 1989, widely and unfairly remembered as the Worst Oscars Ever, which Schulman, a staff writer for The New Yorker, dissects like a forensic pathologist hovering over an overdressed corpse.

From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2023

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

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

From The Guardian ● Nov. 16, 2020

I was sitting in a taxi, wondering if I had overdressed for the evening, when I looked out the window and saw Mom rooting through a Dumpster.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls

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

Formerly, overdressing in the country was reprobated as quite vulgar; but now, even persons of birth and fashion are guilty of this want of taste and sense.

From Tales and Novels — Volume 10 by Maria Edgeworth