over-embellished

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over-embellished - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  over-embellished \over-embellished\ adj.
     marked by elaborate rhetoric and many figures of speech.
  
     Syn: empurpled, flowery, ornate, purple.
          [WordNet 1.5]

over-embellished - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  over-embellished
      adj 1: excessively elaborate or showily expressed; "a writer of
             empurpled literature"; "many purple passages"; "an over-
             embellished story of the fish that got away" [syn:
             empurpled, over-embellished, purple]