The overembellished designer suit jacket that originally had a big price tag and screamed Dynasty was a perfect item to sell on eBay. From Wordnik.com. [The Shopping Diet] Reference
Monheit overembellished the melody, which might have been forgivable if she hadn't also overemoted, once even interjecting a theatrical sob. From Wordnik.com. [The Singing Epidemic] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 25, 2004] Reference
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.". From Wordnik.com. [Omni Daily News] Reference
They, too, have the richly overembellished rooflines; they, too, have achieved a fanciful arrangement of spaces possible only through centuries of adding structure onto structure onto ruin. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-04-01] Reference
Several of the works from which he has quoted have been discovered; and it has been shown that, wild as some of his legends may read in the garb in which he has given them, there is proof that important facts underlie the structure, though it has been somewhat overembellished by a redundant fancy. From Wordnik.com. [An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800] Reference
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