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adj. - Excessively elaborate or showily expressed.

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  • The overembellished designer suit jacket that originally had a big price tag and screamed Dynasty was a perfect item to sell on eBay.
  • Monheit overembellished the melody, which might have been forgivable if she hadn't also overemoted, once even interjecting a theatrical sob.
  • And we have to take the tapes as a bit of script writing and embellished and overembellished to events that actually happened some years ago.
  • Entertainment Weekly on I'm Down by Mishna Wolff A: "All of Wolff's experiences funnel into this buoyant memoir, which is rich in detail but never feels overembellished."
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