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synonyms for high-wrought
- baroque
- beautiful
- elegant
- embroidered
- fancy
- gaudy
- gilded
- glamorous
- lavish
- magnificent
- opulent
- rococo
- sparkling
- sumptuous
- adorned
- aureate
- bedecked
- bright
- brilliant
- busy
- colored
- convoluted
- dazzling
- elaborate
- fine
- flamboyant
- flashy
- flaunting
- florid
- flowery
- fussy
- glitzy
- glossy
- jeweled
- luscious
- meretricious
- ornamented
- ostentatious
- overdone
- overelaborate
- pretentious
- resplendent
- rich
- showy
- splashy
- superficial
- tawdry
- variegated
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How to use high-wrought in a sentence
But such high wrought feelings could not remain long in the same ecstatic tone.
Quentin Durward | Sir Walter ScottIs there not a distinctively womanly strain of emotion in the throbbing tides of her high-wrought melodious song?
George Eliot | Mathilde BlindThe spectators murmured a joyful applause, in high wrought expectation of the bloody game.
The Fair Maid of Perth | Sir Walter Scott
Towards the end your high-wrought imagination can almost smell the sticking plaister, so vivid is the picture.
Ireland as It Is | Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)But she put by the suggestion as the wild improbable coinage of her own high wrought imagination.
Mary Seaham, Volume 3 of 3 | Elizabeth Caroline Grey
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