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111showy — adjective they spared no sequins or feathers in what may be the most showy finale ever seen on this stage Syn: ostentatious, conspicuous, pretentious, flamboyant, gaudy, garish, brash, vulgar, loud, extravagant, fancy, ornate, overelaborate,… …
112busy — adj .1. occupied, engaged, employed, working, at work, on duty, at it; taken, in use, tied down or up; engrossed, absorbed, involved, intent, preoccupied, diverted; diligent, assiduous, industrious, laboring, toiling, grinding, drudging, slaving …
113fussy — adj 1. particular, overparticular, finicky, picky, Inf. choosy; dainty, Inf. fuddy duddy, Inf. pernickety, discriminating, highly selective; fastidious, hard to please, difficult, critical, demanding, exacting, painstaking; minute, detailed,… …
114niggling — adj 1. petty, minor, picayune, trivial, puny; inconsequential, unimportant, insignificant, nugatory, worthless, useless; piddling, trifling, fiddling, frivolous, fribble; inane, silly, foolish, pointless, Inf. dumb, idiotic. 2. fussy,… …
115overblown — adj 1. overdone, excessive, extravagant, lavish, profuse, copious. See overdone(def. 2). 2. oversize, outsize, overlarge, overbig. 3. elaborate, overelaborate, overdetailed, overworked, overwrought; exaggerated, blown or blown up, blown up out of …
116overdone — adj 1.(all of food) overcooked, over baked, overroasted, overbroiled, overbrowned; charred, scorched, singed, scalded; burn, burn to a crisp, carbonized. 2. excessive, immoderate, extravagant, lavish, beyond all bounds; profuse, copious,… …
117overwrought — adj 1. all worked up, all wrought up, beside oneself, not oneself, in a state, in a dither, in a titter, atwitter, Inf. in a tizzy; overexcited, overly excited, all wound up, all keyed up, Sl. choked up; aroused, all stirred up, all whipped up,… …
118finicky — /ˈfɪnɪki / (say finikee) adjective 1. excessively fastidious; too particular or fussy. 2. (of things) overelaborate; containing too much unimportant detail. Also, finikin, finicking. {unexplained variant of finical} …
119rhetorical — /rəˈtɒrɪkəl/ (say ruh torikuhl) adjective 1. belonging to or concerned with mere style or effect. 2. having the nature of rhetoric. 3. overelaborate, bombastic in style. –rhetorically, adverb …
120embroider — [v1] add fancy stitching, adornment beautify, bedeck, braid, color, cross stitch, deck, decorate, embellish, fix up, garnish, gild, gussy up*, knit, ornament, pattern, quilt, spruce up*, stitch, weave pattern, work; concepts 177,218 embroider… …
