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dressing down

NOUN
  1. a severe scolding

How To Use dressing down In A Sentence

  • Her longtime hairstylist Kim Kimble tells People, "Even when she's dressing down, she will accessorize with items that make the outfi t pop or wear her hair in a glamorous style.
  • Forget about dressing down; be one step ahead of your co-workers with these stylish duds that'll make you forget you're at work.
  • He claimed that actors were given a ‘dressing down’ when they got things wrong or when they were caught boozing.
  • That earned him a deserved dressing down from the trial judge. Times, Sunday Times
  • Anyone caught not wearing a seatbelt in a car or a taxi can expect a dressing down from the chairman himself. Times, Sunday Times
  • GOOD on teachers for dressing down parents who turn up in school wearing pyjamas. The Sun
  • With companies busy downsizing - oops, rightsizing is the politically correct word - dressing down has become the order of the day.
  • With companies busy downsizing - oops, rightsizing is the politically correct word - dressing down has become the order of the day.
  • A pair of Mississippi misogynists were given a dressing down when a judge meted out a fitting punishment for their crimes.
  • The other day, he was virtually given a ‘dressing down’ by an irate woman delegate who demanded to know whether he was a male chauvinist.
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