Definition of Outdressing

1. Verb. (present participle of outdress) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Outdressing

1. outdress [v] - See also: outdress

Lexicographical Neighbors of Outdressing

outdragging
outdrags
outdrank
outdraw
outdrawing
outdrawn
outdraws
outdream
outdreamed
outdreaming
outdreams
outdreamt
outdress
outdressed
outdresses
outdressing
outdrew
outdrink
outdrinking
outdrinks
outdriven
outdrives
outdriving
outdrop
outdropped
outdropping
outdrops
outdrove
outdrunk

Literary usage of Outdressing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1918)
"... but for better clothes either to arouse the envy of her fellow- workers by outdressing them, or to mingle in society beyond one's means. ..."

2. Psychology, Descriptive and Explanatory: A Treatise of the Phenomena, Laws by George Trumbull Ladd (1904)
"... to excel in trapping game, or in outdressing and outranking others, or in "bulling" or "bearing" the market); and they subdue ideas and feelings and ..."

3. Psychology, Descriptive and Explanatory: A Treatise of the Phenomena, Laws by George Trumbull Ladd (1894)
"... to excel in trapping game, or in outdressing and outranking others, or in "bulling" or "bearing" the market); and they subdue ideas and feelings and ..."

4. Memoirs of Sophia Dorothea, Consort of George I: Chiefly from the Secret by Robert Folkestone Williams, Sophia Dorothea (1846)
"... -when they employed all their resources to attract notice towards themselves by outdressing all the most distinguished ladies at court, ..."

5. Life in Washington: And Life Here and There by Mary Jane Windle (1859)
"... outdressing the lady of the "Supreme Court," or throwing into the shade the less pretending government official's lady. Well-to-do merchants' clerks, ..."

6. The New Democracy: An Essay on Certain Political and Economic Tendencies in by Walter Edward Weyl (1912)
"The old joke about the maidservant outdressing her mistress has almost ceased to be a joke and become a social phenomenon. Nowhere in the world is there so ..."

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