bedizen
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Other Word Forms
- bedizenment noun
- unbedizened adjective
Etymology
Origin of bedizen
Example Sentences
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His wrists are bedizened with bling from Hermès and Cartier, and fawning fans line up for selfies.”
From Seattle Times
You can, however, still purchase a baby-doll T-shirt bedizened with the film’s title in rhinestones.
From New York Times
“That agreeable sensation alternates with a muffled sense that the thing sometimes resembles a vast model made of corrugated cardboard and a suspicion that it borders on a bedizened Trump Tower kind of flash.”
From Los Angeles Times
Similarly, the indigenous flowers she wore in her hair and the native jewelry she used to bedizen herself with were also reflections of her love for Mexico and her nationalist stance.
From Washington Post
Is it too much to speculate that beneath the swirling tattoos, asymmetrically trimmed hair, and bedizened robes, you would recognize someone much closer to yourself, at least in certain respects, than your own ancestors?
From Literature
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