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embellishing

adjective as in decorative

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Day of the Dead parades follow a cross-cultural flow, embellishing Halloween stylizations of the dancing skeleton.

Without the choreographed truth-embellishing dance found in his published work, the truth emerges.

Anderson Cooper recently dedicated a long CNN segment to debunking allegations that Dayem was embellishing his reports.

“He was embellishing,” Mani said, during an interview last week.

A shared tendency with his subjects toward embellishing things.

Castalia lacked the Ancram gift of embellishing disadvantageous circumstances.

I have two reasons for embellishing this little volume with your distinguished and honored name.

His favorite occupation consisted in embellishing his rhetoric with all the proprieties of gesticulation and utterance.

The gay bonnets and brilliant dresses threw a varied and picturesque beauty over the scene, softening and embellishing it.

Enamoured with the peace and rest that brooded over the place, he went on year by year enlarging and embellishing it.

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On this page you'll find 38 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to embellishing, such as: fancy, ornamental, adorning, cosmetic, enhancing, and florid.

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

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