overelaborate

Example Sentences

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What happens next in “Devil House” is complicated, and I want to be careful not to overelaborate.

From New York Times • Jan. 18, 2022

Are we still waiting around for Toni Morrison’s rather wordy and overelaborate sentences to let themselves be “more clearly interpreted?”

From Washington Post • Sep. 27, 2020

His style is sometimes called Latinate or overelaborate, but in truth he tried to make it a vocal, speaking, natural style.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 3, 2015

The state that has taken coconut cake to its overelaborate zenith is the state that gets coconut cake as its official state dessert.

From Slate • Aug. 24, 2014

It was made of granite for strength and massiveness, but like so many other things in Iofur’s palace, it was decorated with overelaborate swags and festoons of gilt that looked like tinsel on a mountainside.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman