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- verb Present participle of
underdress .
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Examples
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I'm a big fan of underdressing for big occasions and overdressing for smaller ones—that way, you at least look different from everyone else.
Don We Now Our Gay Apparel Tina Gaudoin 2011
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There is indeed such a thing as overdressing, but that is when one ignores the conventions of the situation: the equivalent of ignoring the conventions by underdressing.
Miss Manners Post 2010
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"The most basic mistake new employees make is underdressing," says Randall Hansen, a professor of business at Stetson University in Deland, Fla.
Dress For Success 2006
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"I can't ever put on all those other things," he declared, indicating the elaborate underdressing.
The Wrong Twin Harry Leon Wilson 1903
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Overdressing can make you look more like a rube than underdressing does.
Ask MetaFilter 2010
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Overdressing is just ten degrees worse than underdressing. "
Free Air Sinclair Lewis 1918
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