UNDERDRESSING Synonyms: 58 Similar and Opposite Words

underdressing

verb

present participle of underdress

as in dressing down

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Like Bezos, whose Sun Valley uniform has included jeans with T-shirts and polo shirts, many of the male tech executives are dressing down.

— Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 10 July 2026
Hardline politicians slammed the president’s unorthodox choice of attire and activists accused him of double standards, where under Iran’s strict dress codes, ordinary people would be barred from dressing down.

— Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Money, 12 June 2026

Definition of dressing down

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Sending The Same Pitch To Every Reporter Today's media landscape is built on relationships, not mass distribution, which means tailoring your pitch to each reporter's beat, audience and interests is the only way to be truly successful.

— Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
Building genuine connections through networking is now considered more impactful than endlessly tailoring a resume.

— Alyshia Hull, USA Today, 28 July 2026

Definition of tailoring

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For example, home furnishing sales usually rise after an increase in home sales, even though furnishings and real estate transactions are different industries.

— Bill Conerly, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
The Colony location is inside the Nebraska Furniture Mart, a large home furnishing store that anchors the Grandscape shopping, restaurant and entertainment center.

— Fousia Abdullahi, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of furnishing

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Cox then walked into frame wearing a light pink bathrobe before draping her dark hair over Aniston’s head.

— Angelique Brenes, PEOPLE, 30 July 2026
Pogačar would later call this the highlight of his Tour de France — better even than his five stage wins — draping himself in the Mexican flag back at his team bus.

— Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 28 July 2026

Definition of draping

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The launch ceremony happened on June 28 at the Sevmash shipyard in Severodvinsk, where the submarine was moved from its construction hall into the water for outfitting and trials.

— Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 3 Aug. 2026
Now scientists at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have built an amphibious version by outfitting the cockroaches with a tiny diving suit, according to a paper published in Nature Communications.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of outfitting

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The East Palo Alto Police Department posted a separate video from the rescue that shows the dog swimming furiously with seagulls circling overhead and firefighters scooping him out of the murky water and swaddling him in towels.

— Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2026
After seven years of trapping, swaddling, collaring and monitoring them in the Twin Cities, Miller doesn’t think his middle-school self was far off.

— Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 21 Apr. 2026

Definition of swaddling

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The installations at the 500 delis were completed in April, but the city has not committed any additional funds towards equipping the thousands of bodegas that remain unprotected, Mateo said.

— Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 7 Aug. 2026
For Mitchell, the more immediate danger comes from people deliberately equipping capable agents with the tools and access to cause harm.

— Chris Stokel-Walker, Scientific American, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of equipping

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Surveillance footage shows Ruis snatching the $275 bauble, which was attached to a $3,500 Alo Odyssey duffel bag, and wrapping it in a tissue before stuffing it into his pocket, according to a criminal complaint and law enforcement sources.

— Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 13 Aug. 2026
What Roth is troubleshooting is a 35-pound humanoid sculpture emerging out the back of the dress and wrapping its arms around Roth’s upper body—a faceless specter looming over him that one armchair critic likens to something from Spirit Halloween.

— Marisa Meltzer, Vanity Fair, 12 Aug. 2026

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