flowery
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The windows of the Druzhkivka tram were open on a sweltering summer afternoon as women wearing flowery dresses and men in light shirts made their way to the weekend market.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
Because of this, she dressed in "soft, flowery, not particularly fashion-forward" clothes.
From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2026
She was convinced most people were sheep — including those who loved the flowery writing and cheesy romance plots of her novels.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 24, 2025
The denizens of Millionaire’s Row wore white linen, seersucker suits, flowery hats and expensive lace versus the short pants and bathing suits among those who lived in the infield.
From Salon ● May 4, 2024
I jammed my finger into an open pocket in the seam, wiggled it until the tape split, and the flowery paper fell away like a snake shedding its skin.
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
The 30-year-old took the opportunity to use “bigger, flowerier, prettier words” in her lyrics without fear of those words not tracking on pop radio.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2020
Emperor Kien Lung wrote, 200 years or more ago, for the benefit of his children, just before he left the Flowery Kingdom for a flowerier:
From The Little Tea Book by George Washington Hood
Richmond's five-year-old Virginia Museum of Fine Arts put the whole Chrysler collection on exhibition, and 989 art lovers including Richmond's floweriest socialites went to look.
From Time Magazine Archive
I've appointed you press agent for this institution, and we need some of your floweriest writing immediately.
From Dear Enemy by Jean Webster
Then the strath opened out and we saw Ken flow silver-clear between the greenest and floweriest banks in the world.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
I judge the institution to have been in its floweriest state, probably now in Hakon Jarl's time.
From Early Kings of Norway by Thomas Carlyle
To Claude it seemed as though nothing older or larger could be so exactly in the prime of beauty; the path to learning was the widest, floweriest, fragrantest path he had ever trod.
From Bonaventure A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana by George Washington Cable
Vocabulary lists containing flowery
Talk Like Shakespeare Day, List 1
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