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overelaborate

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Example Sentences

"I see," said I—for Mr. Brisher is apt to overelaborate his jokes.

It ought not to look overelaborate, even though it is spangled with silver or crystal or is made of sheer lace.

It was a Cosway; but a Cosway broadened and without a hint of genteel namby-pamby or overelaborate finesse.

It is a work unique, perhaps, in its design, but entirely unfeeling and preposterous in its overelaborate decorations.

We had had two meals, one of which was as totally unnecessary as the other was overelaborate.

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On this page you'll find 103 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to overelaborate, such as: baroque, beautiful, elegant, embroidered, fancy, and gaudy.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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