dressing-down
Example Sentences
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Colby reportedly gave the cardinal a dressing down.
From Salon • Apr. 9, 2026
As Secretary Duffy knows, if dressing down has never been so common, dressing up has never been so easy.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 15, 2026
Belarus on Monday summoned a Lithuanian envoy for a dressing down over a drone crash, the latest in a swirl of diplomatic standoffs between the neighbouring post-Soviet states.
From Barron's • Dec. 1, 2025
“Thank you for this exhausting dressing down of the probation department,” Preven said last Tuesday after the supervisors wrapped up rebuking officials for paltry programming inside juvenile halls.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 10, 2025
He got the best dressing down of his life, but that was all he did get.
From An Unknown Lover by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.
