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synonyms for over-dressing

  • attire
  • clothe
  • deck out
  • embellish
  • spruce up
  • array
  • beautify
  • fit out
  • fix up
  • gussy up
  • improve
  • overdress
  • preen
  • prettify
  • primp
  • prink
  • slick
  • smarten
  • spiff up
  • titivate
On this page you'll find 22 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to over-dressing, such as: attire, clothe, deck out, embellish, spruce up, and array.

antonyms for over-dressing

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  • dress down
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How to use over-dressing in a sentence

Disputes over dressing-rooms will be arranged between the artistes concerned.
PUNCH, JULY 18, 1917VARIOUS
The two young ladies who had just entered the room, were shining examples of that system of over-dressing.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, NO. CCCXLV. JULY, 1844. VOL. LVI.VARIOUS
As for over-dressing, it is so utterly bad form and bad taste that it requires only passing notice.
BOOK OF ETIQUETTE, VOLUME 2LILLIAN EICHLER WATSON
We were up early, spent little time over dressing in a stiff breeze, and turned out to look at the weather.
IN THE TAIL OF THE PEACOCKISABEL SAVORY
One saw it was not the over-dressing of the nouveau riche, but the rather old-world dandyism of a past generation.
BIRD OF PARADISEADA LEVERSON
The usual punishment for his impatience over dressing is to have no garden flowers.
STORY OF MY LIFE, VOLUMES 1-3AUGUSTUS J. C. HARE
He had old women, who had not thought a frivolous thought in fifty years, teetering over dressing doll babies.
A CIRCUIT RIDER'S WIFECORRA HARRIS
Two of the most common faults of elderly women are imitation and over-dressing.
BOOK OF ETIQUETTE, VOLUME 2LILLIAN EICHLER WATSON
There is a great deal of very unnecessary cant about the over-dressing of the common people.
SUNDAY UNDER THREE HEADSCHARLES DICKENS
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