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• v  dress too warmly
• v  put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive
• s  dressed too elaborately

• Derval's principle is to present a lot of girls and a lot of spectacleso much spectacle indeed that he clearly has the most overdressed undressed show in the world.
• Chalabi was overdressed, in a clean tie and a pressed herring-bone blazer.
• Minister Konitza, Bishop Noli and the three princesses chatted in Boston's Ritz-Carlton Hotel and next day the Moslem sisters, overdressed as usual, attended two Boston Albanian .

• overdress
• overclothe
• dress up
• fig out
• fig up
• deck up
• gussy up
• fancy up
• trick up
• deck out
• trick out
• prink
• attire
• get up
• rig out
• tog up
• tog out

• underdress
• dress_down

News & Articles

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• Here come the preschool fashionistas
  Why are we fascinated with overdressed kids?        
  June 25, 2013 - Salon.com

Quotes

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• Joe Biden in Yahoo! News
  Folks, I apologize if I'ma little overdressed,said Joe Biden at a stop in Iowa. "I got in the plane -- I was meeting with President Talabani, you know, he's the Kurdish leader in Iraq, and I literally ran from that meeting in the Capitol."
• Isaac Hayes in CBS News
  There was the time when Lily Tomlin, standing next to an outlandishly dressed Isaac Hayes cracked, "I'm hoping that I personally haven't overdressed for the occasion!"
• Zach Randolph in New York Daily News
  Nobody told me what to wear,Randolph said that day. "I think I'm overdressed."