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embellishment

noun as in exaggeration

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Example Sentences

Some barely provide any protection at all, while others overpower the Apple Watch’s understated design with overly gaudy embellishments.

Her writing style as a lower-court judge was explanatory, and with little rhetorical embellishment.

At the same time, he artfully exploits the power of simplicity by letting the imagery speak for itself, without embellishment.

In 2020, designing wasn’t about styling or embellishment but about coming up with down and dirty solutions.

From Quartz

It was similar to the way a pianist plays chords with the left hand, while using the right hand to play the melody and improvised embellishments.

She veers towards the avant-garde, using metal-powder deformed silicone piercings as textural embellishment and digital printers.

The following looks—everything from eveningwear to denim jeans—dripped and dazzled with embellishment.

Sets start at $1,500 and top out at about $6,000, depending on the level of embellishment.

Soon they jolted the audience to attention with black trousers dripping in metallic embellishment—like high-end punk rockers.

With the embellishment stripped bare, the diaries present a nastier, more easily irritated side of the man.

For the embellishment of this city, many Toltecs are said to have been called in from various towns, by the orders of Quinantzin.

Heaven forfend that change in any shape, whether of embellishment or of decay, should fall upon that cottage!

Archelaus, king of Macedon, made use of Zeuxiss pencil for the embellishment of his palace.

But the question arises, whether this is an historical land-mark, or a poetical embellishment?

The question will, of course, remain—In what proportions has he mixed history with imaginative embellishment?

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On this page you'll find 45 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to embellishment, such as: adornment, coloring, embroidery, ornamentation, decoration, and elaboration.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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