overdress
Example Sentences
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“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.”
And the older guests, slightly overdressed for the occasion, can be seen smuggling their ties back into their pockets.
From BBC
She made everyone else look overdone and overdressed, washing the Augean stables of Cannes clean.
From New York Times
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
In her enormous cheetah-print coat, black turtleneck and strappy black sandals she was, she acknowledged, a little overdressed for the setting, but she had come straight from a photo shoot.
From New York Times
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