dresses down
Example Sentences
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Her supervisor, played by Nicole Kidman, dresses down generals in the situation room.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
Wintour tells me she only brought one or two suitcases with her to London and she won’t be drawn on whether she dresses down when she’s at home in the US.
From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2024
Like the moment when the chef dresses down a WCK worker for breaking protocol in the Bahamas and giving a woman sustenance before relief stations were set up.
From Washington Post ● May 24, 2022
He dresses down an elderly nun for greeting him with a kiss and takes the name Pius XIII, a callback to a more traditional era in the church.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 12, 2017
She would be seventeen, nearly eighteen—a young lady who wore dresses down at her ankles, and did up her hair.
From About Peggy Saville by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.
