How To Use Overdress In A Sentence
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The girls were fashionably attired but not overdressed, with attractive figures and lovely faces.
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Avoid the tendency to overdress. You will reduce unnecessary sweating which contributes to heat loss.
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The thought was mother to the act; in a mere moment, the gown of seventeen overdresses made of sheerest silk was in a heap on the floor, and Kara slid the heavy satin black over her head while Gianna picked up the discarded gown, shook it out, and put it back in the wardrobe.
Elvenborn
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I probably overdressed for a Saturday (polo shirt, jumper, tweed jacket and slacks) but had never seen my supervisor in anything but a suit.
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Everyone else was wearing jeans so I felt a bit overdressed in my best suit.
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She is almost always overdressed, and in ways that make people blink.
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When Cary shows up to a high-spirited clambake with Ron and his pals, she's uncomfortable and overdressed in a tight gray ensemble.
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I see him most often in the company of boys between 18-25, and frankly, he's usually a bit overdressed for my taste.
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Today, he said, it probably means a lounge suit but, he warned, always be overdressed rather than underdressed.
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Business class is 15 snappy irked souls, hissing at stroppily overdressed toddlers and kicking too much matched suede luggage with a pursed fury.
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I'm stuck on a communications board like some overdressed corem technician, while you're actually working in the field you always wanted to!
Recovery
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If you are overdressed, underdressed, have on too much make-up or not enough, it can ruin your whole evening.
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We talk to another general, this one surprisingly overdressed, who briefs us off the record.
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She said that earlier we walked by a water fountain that was lined in golden horses, and being overdressed in front of golden horses in Prague was like being too prepared for the SAT.
The Adults
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I felt terribly overdressed and ashamed of my tidy cardigan and River Island jeans which have no holes.
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Overdressing is just ten degrees worse than underdressing.
Free Air
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After the corset came stockings, three petticoats, and a pure white overdress.
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And remember; when in doubt, it's usually better to be overdressed than underdressed.
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I thought Ester was overdressed too, but she said this was impossible.
The Adults
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Unmarried, very short, plump early in life, fat later, overdressed, vain, and watchful, Gibbon was easy to make fun of, and though he belonged to Johnson's Club, he was not a clubbable man.
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She felt overdressed in her smart suit.
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Pale sea-foam-green bodices and overdresses over white.
Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People
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I feel rather overdressed in this suit everyone else is wearing jeans!
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Many appear overdressed within the workplace because of the importance of ‘proper’ attire.
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Kirsty felt out of place at Simon's office today, pale and overdressed, but at dinner, after gulping down a drink, she relaxes.
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‘And you are far overdressed,’ she answered calmly.
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Yet, as I walk past the pool and into the restaurant for breakfast, I feel overdressed and decidedly pale.
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They are maids of the court, who wear rose-pink bodices and overdresses over white.
Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People
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Even though he wore a tux, he didn't look overdressed.
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At the top of this, surmounted by a gilt eagle, was a marvelous picture of a man with a blue coat and yellow smallclothes handing into a boat a lady who wore a skirt of purple and an overdress of scarlet, very much betrimmed, holding a green parasol over her head with one hand and placing a slippered foot on the edge of the boat.
A Little Girl in Old Boston
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I don't want to overdress or overcomplicate things.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was decorated with an overdressed pale-blue rabbit in non-toxic paint.
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When Cary shows up to a high-spirited clambake with Ron and his pals, she's uncomfortable and overdressed in a tight gray ensemble.
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We never saw landlords and used to imagine they were oversized and overdressed and living the high life on the rents they received from their tenants.
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I'm a big fan of underdressing for big occasions and overdressing for smaller ones—that way, you at least look different from everyone else.
Don We Now Our Gay Apparel
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I feel rather overdressed in this suit everyone else is wearing jeans!
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Originally a ‘buck’ was a dandy, a pretentious, overdressed show-off of a man.
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They wear bodices and overdresses of the very palest pink, flowered with deep-pink roses.
Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People
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She felt overdressed in her smart suit.
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Another thing those of us in the US have no doubt witnessed are the strange aspects of the now-much-emulated gang banger look whereby one overdresses in the summer and underdresses in the winter.
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The women are rouged, calcimined, dyed, overdressed to the nth degree.
Scene V. The Hairy Ape
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There was a woman standing a couple of yards from the front gate: large, pale, and overdressed.
EVERVILLE
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Plus, keep in mind that, as a general rule, you are always better off being slightly overdressed rather than underdressed, whatever the occasion.
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She was good-looking enough, in her thinnish, solemn way, but it seemed to me she was kind of overdressed and too grand.
In the Arena Stories of Political Life
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I know not what strange premonition or unformed surmise had made me put in my wallet the thin overdress of a parabolanus.
Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom
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When she wants to let her hair down it doesn't feel right somehow, as if she's going partying for the first time after years of humdrum married life and turns up feeling awkward and overdressed.
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She regarded the overdressed girl with aversion, answered her mincingly-spoken "How do you do, Marjory?" very curtly, and continued to "glower," as Mrs. Smylie described it, without saying another word.
Hunter's Marjory A Story for Girls
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She was treated with particular savagery by cartoonists, who represented her as ugly, overdressed, over-fecund and avid for diamonds and pearls.
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If a more satiny look than cheesecloth gives is wished, let the overdresses be of light-colored cambric with the glazed side turned outward.
Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People
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He dresses like agency colleagues; when in doubt he overdresses.
14: From farm to market
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And as for uncaring Mexican owners. .well you should see Spunky's other brother wearing his tee shirt all winter, or the other "overdressed" ones in this part of town.
Cats
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While clearly overdressed in a suit, Clark was quick to point out that he wasn't wearing a tie.
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We were both overdressed for the park, but the formality was refreshing so late in the night.
The Adults
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Standing there in front of the mirror in my dress and heels, with my hair and make-up done, I felt way overdressed for anything.
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I don't want to overdress or overcomplicate things.
Times, Sunday Times
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I hadn't wanted to look like a total slob for this, so I'd worn a black skirt and a sleeveless silk blouse, hoping I wasn't too overdressed.
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Overdressing can make you look more like a rube than underdressing does.
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Though this tale of reincarnation and a love that crossed generations starred the peerless Barbara Harris, as a psychically gifted young woman with a past life just waiting to leap out of her, it was generally agreed that the 1965 production was overdressed, overplotted and more or less out of its mind.
NYT > Home Page
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There is indeed such a thing as overdressing, but that is when one ignores the conventions of the situation: the equivalent of ignoring the conventions by underdressing.
Miss Manners
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After the corset came stockings, three petticoats, and a pure white overdress.
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Pale-blue bodices and looped-up overdresses over white.
Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People
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We believe in always being underdressed or overdressed.
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That's not a dress; that's a python-skin bikini with a see-through overdress.
JUST BETWEEN US
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Court ladies in pale-yellow bodices and looped overdresses over white.
Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People
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The salads - arugula and fennel, field greens with buffalo mozzarella - were brisk, colorful and not overdressed.
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Privately I thought she looked like an average porcelain doll - completely overdressed.
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The first group to enter is the pale-violet group, ladies-in-waiting, who wear pale-violet bodices and overdresses over white.
Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People
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Amidst bikini-clad women and overdressed old men, the two unassuming young Brits sit on a plain white couch, sharing a cigarette, barely shaded from the mid-afternoon sun.
Theo Spielberg: Meet The Vaccines!
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Rachael gave them a slight smile and had the feeling she overdressed.
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I was overdressed for the weather, and sweat streamed down my face as I walked around the block at 34th Street and Lexington Avenue, putting off the meeting with my role model.
Steve Mariotti: Remembering Ayn Rand
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She has a great voice but the promise of her writing is finally lost in an overdressed, overdramatic plot.
Times, Sunday Times
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Corbi had moved off with the overdressed Count and his friends and they soon disappeared from view beyond the trees.
PROSECUTOR
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Generally, either they show up overdressed, wearing a conservative suit and tie in earth tones, or if they choose to pay attention to my request, they wear an expensive polo shirt and nicely pressed khakis.
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A white lace overdress of filmiest texture fell over the velvet, almost touching the wreath of lilies, and looked as though it was made of sea foam.
Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch
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That's not a dress; that's a python-skin bikini with a see-through overdress.
JUST BETWEEN US
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Standing there in front of the mirror in my dress and heels, with my hair and make-up done, I felt way overdressed for anything.
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The flower of successful womanhood -- those who have bargained shrewdly -- are to be found overfed, overdressed, sensualized, in great hotels, on mammoth steamers and luxurious trains, rushing hither and thither on idle errands.
Together
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Musetta, looking like an overdressed silent-movie vamp, drives up with her ancient admirer in a sputtering antique automobile.
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In the work environment, it's generally better to be slightly overdressed than underdressed.
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It is very unlikely that any one else will be in white or anything at all dressy, and you will look overdressed, which is in very bad taste; besides, though the weather seems warm enough for such thin material here on shore, it will be a great deal cooler on the water; and should the waves or spray come dashing over us, you would find your dress clinging to you like a wet rag -- neither beauty nor comfort in it.
Elsie at Nantucket
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It seemed preposterously overdressed and overeager for the byways of my small hometown.
