as in ornate
elaborately and often excessively decorated
the room was so overdecorated that no one thing was shown to its best advantage
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One of the museum’s most celebrated exhibits is the priceless Trà Kiệu Pedestal, a huge, ornate altar featuring symbolic images such as Apsara dancers.—
Tamara Hinson,
Condé Nast Traveler,
27 Mar. 2026 -
The ornate cornice on the top of the building also collapsed.—
Julian Roberts-Grmela,
New York Daily News,
26 Mar. 2026
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The decorated skier suffered back-to-back injuries in the last month.—
Yi-Jin Yu,
ABC News,
23 Feb. 2026
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Long overshadowed by his more decorated co-star, Brown is emerging as a legitimate NBA MVP candidate as the season’s halfway mark approaches.—
Zack Cox,
Boston Herald,
4 Jan. 2026
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To make that medicine go down easier, RAYE costumes her fatalism in a baroque maximalism.—
Boutayna Chokrane,
Pitchfork,
2 Apr. 2026
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NewJeans, one of the most exciting and innovative recent K-pop groups, has been largely inactive since 2024 due to a baroque legal dispute with the HYBE subsidiary ADOR.—
Mitch Therieau,
New Yorker,
27 Mar. 2026
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“Overdecorated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overdecorated. Accessed 4 Apr. 2026.
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