over-dressed

See also: overdressed

English

Adjective

over-dressed (comparative more over-dressed, superlative most over-dressed)

1. Alternative form of overdressed.
   • 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin, page 13:

     He was much over-dressed, in a gaudy vest of many colors, a blue neckerchief, bedropped gayly with yellow spots, and arranged with a flaunting tie, quite in keeping with the general air of the man.

   • 1888, Donn Piatt, “The Sales-Lady of the City”, in The Lone Grave of the Shenandoah and Other Tales, Chicago, Ill., […]: Belford, Clarke & Co., →OCLC, page 91:

     He was a vulgar, over-dressed fellow, of about thirty-five or forty, of slender yet sinewy build. He wore a plum-colored overcoat, lavender kids, patent-leather shoes, and a shiny silk hat.

   • 1910, Baroness Orczy, chapter 9, in Lady Molly of Scotland Yard‎^[1], London: Cassell, page 234:

     In strange contrast to her depressing appearance, there sat beside her an over-dressed, much behatted, peroxided young woman, who bore the stamp of the profession all over her pretty, painted face.

   • 1911, G. K. Chesterton, “The Invisible Man”, in The Innocence of Father Brown:

     They both lived on money of their own, and were wearisomely idle and over-dressed.