ADJECTIVE
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excessively elaborate or showily expressed
an over-embellished story of the fish that got away
a writer of empurpled literature
many purple passages
How To Use over-embellished In A Sentence
- an over-embellished story of the fish that got away
- The Importance of Being Earnest plays like an over-embellished cake that topples under the weight of its own decoration.
- Some of chemistry's popular tales are probably outright fabrication, the product of wishful thinking, over-embellished recollection, wilful self-aggrandisement or a skewed historical agenda.
- Cooked to perfection on the bone and not over-embellished, the truffle oil was a curious addition, which nonetheless worked for me.
- The Warne story is well known, and just as regularly over-embellished.