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vb. (en-pastdress down)
Usage examples of "dressed down".
The guy was dressed down some, but it was clear that there was cash and to spare about him.
Mostly thanks to being promptly dressed down by his superiors soon afterward.
All these military and navy people, most of 'em in CoDominium uniforms, General Owensford dressed down as a light colonel of the Legion, General Slater in Royal Sparta uniform like Admiral Forrest, and they come with petty officers and sergeants and every one of them wearing sidearms.
He dressed down, shirts and slacks instead of suits and ties, and had already been dressed down for this by the powers that be in Misery.
Veronica in her prim-and-proper work clothes, and Veronica dressed down to dance.
She dressed down, she acted in only the most subdued ways and seemed to do everything she could to distance herself from all other human beings.
His face burned like that of a rookie dressed down by a tough training sergeant.
After she'd had her talk with the producer at the theater she'd approached the stagehand Schmidt had dressed down about dropping the load of lumber.
Paul and June, carefully dressed and outfitted to suggest fairly rich people who had dressed down for the trip so as not to appear pretentious, would have been effectively invisible even without the drizzle.
Both having felt the sharpness of Manning's tongue, and both having been dressed down by Warrant Officer McKenny, they seemed to be linked by a bond of trouble and they stood close together for mutual comfort.