bemedaled

American  

[bih-med-ld] / bɪˈmɛd ld /

especially British, bemedalled

adjective

1. wearing or adorned with many medals.

   a bemedaled general; wearing a bemedaled military blouse.

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Etymology

Origin of bemedaled

First recorded in 1875–80; be- + medal + -ed ²

Example Sentences

He is George C. Scott as Gen. George S. Patton Jr., glistening from helmet to boots, sashed and bemedaled, ivory-handled pistols snug at the hips, and he talks to us as to a theater-full of GIs just finishing combat training in Louisiana about to embark for the war in Africa.

From Los Angeles Times

Gantz is largely unknown to Israelis, who observed from afar his bemedaled military career.

From Los Angeles Times

At best they have allowed their reputations for integrity, their bemedaled uniforms, their intellectual pedigrees to be used as glittering props, the false facades of a Potemkin presidency.

From Washington Post

Sacha Baron Cohen — as a tyrant who's a bemedaled megalomaniacal mashup of Saddam Hussein and Moammar Gadhafi, with a little bit of Kim Jong Il thrown in for spice — has made a movie that is sharply satirical and consistently hilarious.

From Seattle Times

It's not quite as delirious as "Borat," still his best movie by far, but in the role of a tyrant who's a bemedaled megalomaniacal mashup of Saddam Hussein and Moammar Gadhafi, with a little bit of Kim Jong-il and his nuclear ambitions thrown in for spice, Baron Cohen has made a movie that is sharply satirical and consistently hilarious.

From Seattle Times