bedizened

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English

Adjective

bedizened (comparative more bedizened, superlative most bedizened)

  1. ostentatious
    • 1923, Lucy Maud Montgomery, “Chapter 8”, in Emily of New Moon:
      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.

Derived terms

Verb

bedizened

  1. simple past and past participle of bedizen
    • 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], “(please specify the page)”, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. , volume II, London: Henry Colburn, , →OCLC, pages 200–201:
      The first who passed him was a man about thirty, with a gait at once jaunty and clumsy, and who was so outrageously bedizened with eye-glass, watch-chain, and stock buckle, gay satin waistcoat, and new white continuations meant to apologize for a seedy coat, as to give the idea of a servant out of place.
    • 1921, Lord Frederic Hamilton, Here, There And Everywhere:
      Twenty-four hours later we were both in the vast halls of the Winter Palace in full uniform, as bedizened with gold as a nouveau riche's drawing-room.