bedizened

English

Etymology

From bedizen +‎ -ed.

Pronunciation

Adjective

bedizened (comparative more bedizened, superlative most bedizened)

  1. (literary) Dressed or ornamented in a gaudy, showy, or tasteless manner; ostentatious.
    Synonym: gaudy
    • 1923, L[ucy] M[aud] Montgomery, “Trial by Fire”, in Emily of New Moon, Toronto, Ont.: McClelland and Stewart, →OCLC, page 84:
      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.
    • [1943], Marjorie Barnard, “Arrow of Mistletoe”, in The Persimmon Tree and Other Stories, Sydney, N.S.W.: The Clarendon Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 12:
      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.

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Verb

bedizened

  1. simple past and past participle of bedizen

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