Sentence examples for proper dressing from inspiring English sources

We got a proper dressing down afterwards.

It's beautiful, but I really need to get a proper dressing table.

I agree with the parent who says that "proper dressing" should be the "parent's job".

"The best we can hope is that Switzerland will get a proper dressing down and people will realise what a mess we've got ourselves in".

An increasingly irate Mailer waxed lyrical on his own intellectual prowess until Flanner gave him a proper dressing down and Dick Cavett offered him his questions sheet, telling him, "fold it five ways and put it where the moon don't shine".

Later, Henry is remanded to the brig for drunk and disorderly, and is given a proper dressing down by the character who was last in that cell for his own drunken shenanigans.

According to Wind, Jones was a stickler for "good manners, proper dress, and polite language".

They are to be assisted with "portfolio development, résumé writing, proper dress and interview techniques training".

In a memo, the firm instructed employees to "exercise good judgment" when determining proper dress.

Perhaps you've also started wearing Rockports instead of proper dress shoes?

Our collective parenting failure to enforce proper dress fobbed off on the public school system.