bewigged
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of bewigged
Example Sentences
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She never even got to clunk and thud her way through any farmhouses or laboratories like a bewigged bull in a china shop.
From Salon • Mar. 8, 2026
At the end of “Air,” director and co-star Ben Affleck, bafflingly bewigged as Nike CEO and co-founder Phil Knight, lies back on his office couch and utters a single word: “equity.”
From Seattle Times • Apr. 5, 2023
Opposite Corbery, Clément Hervieu-Léger is prissy and repressed as a bewigged Robespierre, with a dancer’s ramrod posture throughout.
From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2023
Adams arrived in a fancy new coach, bewigged and be-ruffled but looking underslept and out of sorts.
From Washington Post • Jan. 19, 2021
He saw the brother and sister running down the marble staircase ahead and aimed jinxes at them, but merely hit several bewigged witches in a portrait on the landing, who ran screeching into neighboring paintings.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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