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Socialist planning, institutions and doctrine have been enthusiastically adopted, but the girls in the night-club shows are not overdressed , and abstract painters, who would not be seen dead in company with socialist realism, get government subsidies.Cuba has bounced into, and out of, various phases of socialist development.
Job-seekers sporting even open-collared shirts might feel overdressed : the entrepreneurs typically wore jeans and T-shirts.
Sensing perhaps that he was overdressed , he took off his jacket and faced the crowd in his shirtsleeves.
James is fairly pleased with his chickpea and cuttlefish soup – "fish a bit rubbery, though" – while Rachel thinks her octopus carpaccio is "overdressed".
His burgeoning film career in the 1980s was cemented by his breakthrough performance in Stephen Frears Dangerous Liaisonss, in which he appeared, arch and overdressed in powdered wig and frills, as the perversely seductive Vicomte de Valmont.
Instead, he seems in unaccountably rude health, raffishly handsome, gloriously overdressed in a morning suit and polka dot scarf, and lewd on request.
I thought this is the worst vision of democracy — illiterate, hard as wood, overdressed , uncultured, with that physiognomy I had earlier observed in the portrait of the awful Andrew Jackson — a face divided proudly in three equal parts: hairline to eyebrows, eyebrows to nose, lips to chin.
And we were overdressed — lookin' like I do now, we did look like trash, and so we looked the part".
In fact, the recent history of America's nationaldefense apparatus is much closer to the stymied, overdressed , risk-averse U.N. peacekeepers that day in Sarajevo than it is to the Hollywood ideal.
Commanding four separate spaces, fourteen highly varied new paintings, reliefs, and wall-mounted sculptures make other art appear overdressed and ill groomed.
But, he said, "I didn't stand up in shul and say, 'I love Jesus.' " My mother — the amiably innocent scion of another Bialystoker family — took me, overdressed (oisgeputzt), to Eaton's department store to see the Christmas pageantry; and then, more reverentially (and to my father's dismay), she took me to the Shrine's wax museum, to see depictions of the passions of the saints.
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The term "overdressed" primarily functions as a descriptive adjective , often used to describe a person's attire being too formal or elaborate for a specific occasion. It modifies a noun (e.g., "she is overdressed "), indicating a perceived mismatch between attire and context. Ludwig AI confirms that the phrase is usable and correct in written English.
Expression frequency: Common
