flowery

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On this page you'll find 47 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to flowery, such as: aureate, baroque, bombastic, declamatory, diffuse, and embellished.

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How to use flowery in a sentence

  • Instead of just lecturing everyone in his vague flowery language, he should put some specific proposals on the table.

    Does Pawlenty Have a Prayer? | Howard Kurtz | April 14, 2011 | THE DAILY BEAST
  • Literally and figuratively, their lives seemed to wander through flowery pleasure-paths.

    Ruth | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
  • They wound through the flowery labyrinth whose mazes were her care and delight.

    Alone | Marion Harland
  • The Arab bowed low before the bishop and Bouillon, and muttered some flowery compliments in his own tongue.

    God Wills It! | William Stearns Davis
  • She was a tiny thing, in a marvellous frock and a flowery hat and a silver girdle and chatelaine.

  • None of your vales, nor your dews and your roses—and your flowery fields, and your myrtle groves.

    The Hubble-Shue | Christian Carstairs

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