over-embellished

Adjective
Synonyms: empurpledpurple

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Adjective (1)

  1. excessively elaborate or showily expressed“a writer of empurpled literature”“many purple passages”“an over-embellished story of the fish that got away”Synonyms: empurpledpurpleOpposite unrhetoricalSimilar rhetorical
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

over-embellished adjective

marked by elaborate rhetoric and many figures of speech. Syn. — empurpled, flowery, ornate, purple.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: WordNet 1.5

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