overdecorated

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Bakers such as Julie Saha and Aimee France eschewed acetate collars and neatly piped rosettes for teetering, overdecorated cakes in a tangle of clashing colors at the recent Brooklyn event “Chaotic Cakes, a Pop Up.”

From Washington Post • Dec. 13, 2022

“Death in Venice” both satirizes and relishes upper-class Venetian tourism of the early 20th century, with a patient camera that settles, uncomfortably if nauseatingly, on an overdecorated hotel and its overdressed guests.

From New York Times • Oct. 13, 2021

We’ve made them overdecorated and overzealous and over the top.

From Slate • Nov. 19, 2020

He gave his overdecorated world a suitable graphic context.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 3, 2018

Behind her, an overdecorated flat reeks of dead apple blossoms, confusion, old age.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr