bemedaled

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
15
Words With Friends
18
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/bɪˈmɛdəld/ (UK)

Definition of bemedaled

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Having or wearing medals.
    “[…] there was to the ferocity of his eye, the splendour of his famous moustache, his immense bemedalled figure and his utterly humourless brand of imperialism—there was to Kitchener, though one might hardly dare say it to his face, something faintly absurd.”
    “The bemedaled Marine refused to fall on his sword and take full blame for the scandal.”
    “The evening had its glamorous elements, with elegantly dressed women and bemedaled and beribboned military officers circulating through the first-floor rooms; Barry, the postmaster general, and the only Eaton ally in the Cabinet except for Van Buren, called it “the most splendid entertainment I have been at in Washington.””
    “The luckier and less disabled ones manned lifts or were posted at the doors of public buildings, a uniformed and bemedalled conciergerie who were more often than not unhelpful, making the most of whatever petty authority they were invested with.”

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Etymology

From be- + medal + -ed.

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