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

Her overdress of flowered muslin was caught up at the sides in panniers over a quilted skirt of light blue satin.

From Marjorie's Maytime by Carolyn Wells

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

Court ladies in pale-yellow bodices and looped overdresses over white.

From Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People by Constance D'Arcy Mackay

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

Much fine stitchery was put into the fine white undergarments of that time, and the overdresses of both men and women became stiff with gold thread and jewels.

From Chats on Old Lace and Needlework by Emily Leigh Lowes

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

The threads, no pieces, of Chilean crab in the Cobb salad tasted watery, while the lettuce was overdressed until limp and the egg overcooked to dry-yolked and rubbery.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 10, 2019

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

“Hummingbirds! Which, let’s face it, are pretty much just overdressed flies. But a bunch of us crows together, guess what we get to be called?”

From "Wishtree" by Katherine Applegate

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

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

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