bedizen
v.
decorate in a cheap showy manner; dress gaudily and in poor taste
bedizen
Verb
1. decorate tastelessly
(hypernym) decorate, adorn, grace, ornament, embellish, beautify
2. dress up garishly and tastelessly
(synonym) dizen
(hypernym) dress up, fig out, fig up, deck up, gussy up, fancy up, trick up, deck out, trick out, prink, attire, get up, rig out, tog up, tog out, overdress
Bedizen
(v. t.)
To dress or adorn tawdrily or with false taste.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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bedizen
Synonyms and related words:
adorn, apply paint, array, beautify, bedaub, bedeck, begild, besmear, blazon, brush on paint, calcimine, coat, color, complexion, cover, dab, dandify, daub, deck, deck out, decorate, deep-dye, dip, distemper, dizen, doll up, double-dye, dress, dress up, dye, embellish, emblazon, embroider, enamel, engild, enrich, face, fancy up, fast-dye, fig out, fix up, fresco, furbish, garnish, get up, gild, glaze, gloss, grace, grain, gussy up, hue, illuminate, imbue, ingrain, japan, lacquer, lay on color, ornament, overdress, paint, parget, pigment, prank, prank up, preen, prettify, pretty up, prime, primp, primp up, prink, prink up, rag out, redecorate, redo, refurbish, set off, set out, shade, shadow, shellac, slick up, slop on paint, smarten, smarten up, smear, spruce up, stain, stipple, tinct, tincture, tinge, tint, titivate, tone, trick out, trick up, trim, undercoat, varnish, wash, whitewash
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Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
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