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flowery

[flau-uh-ree] / ˈflaʊ ə ri /


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In addition, she’ll offer her brutally honest thoughts on the flowery speeches he will deliver while being honored for his artistry.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

The windows of the Druzhkivka tram were open on a sweltering summer afternoon as women wearing flowery dresses and men in light shirts made their way to the weekend market.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

He would begin a performance with Glass at the piano, bestowing an ingratiating quality of quiet pleasure on Ginsberg’s flowery imagery.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026

The language used to describe snack tins is so flowery — and muddled by hyper-wellness jargon — it’s almost nonsensical.

From Salon ● May 17, 2026

It’s only one room, with a small table pushed against a wall with flowery oilcloth spread on it.

From "Finding Langston" by Lesa Cline-Ransome

The 30-year-old took the opportunity to use “bigger, flowerier, prettier words” in her lyrics without fear of those words not tracking on pop radio.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2020

Emperor Kien Lung wrote, 200 years or more ago, for the benefit of his children, just before he left the Flowery Kingdom for a flowerier:

From The Little Tea Book by George Washington Hood

Richmond's five-year-old Virginia Museum of Fine Arts put the whole Chrysler collection on exhibition, and 989 art lovers including Richmond's floweriest socialites went to look.

From Time Magazine Archive

I've appointed you press agent for this institution, and we need some of your floweriest writing immediately.

From Dear Enemy by Jean Webster

"It is the airiest, floweriest, sunniest, brightest, most delightful altogether house, that ever took lodgers in!"

From The End of a Coil by Susan Warner

To Claude it seemed as though nothing older or larger could be so exactly in the prime of beauty; the path to learning was the widest, floweriest, fragrantest path he had ever trod.

From Bonaventure A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana by George Washington Cable

One can't describe the beauty of the Italian lakes, nor would one try if one could; the floweriest rhetoric can recall it only as a picture on a fireboard recalls a Claude.

From Italian Hours by Henry James


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