bedizened

comparative more bedizened · superlative most bedizened

1. literaryDressed or ornamented in a gaudy, showy, or tasteless manner; ostentatious.

   She wore only the subtlest touch of make up and round her delicate throat only a single string of pearls. Among the hundred bedizened women she was a rarity.

   [1943], Marjorie Barnard, “Arrow of Mistletoe”, in The Persimmon Tree and Other Stories, Sydney, N.S.W.: The Clarendon Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 12

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   There was much whispering and plotting after she had gone in, a conference with some of the boys, and a handing over of bedizened pencils and chews of gum for value received.

   1923, L[ucy] M[aud] Montgomery, “Trial by Fire”, in Emily of New Moon, Toronto, Ont.: McClelland and Stewart, →OCLC, page 84

   Synonyms: gaudy

alternative bedisened

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of bedizen