florid

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The inclusion of Mr. Dominé’s florid prose and his fellow citizens’ good manners are parts of what makes “Glitterball” a supremely creative example of creative documentary.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 17, 2026

“Nile is an unapologetically florid character,” Danes says of Nile.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 13, 2025

His henchman Stephen Miller does know how to produce a florid turn of phrase, doesn't he?

From Salon • Apr. 11, 2025

And during the meeting in May, his cautious rhetoric was in contrast to Mr Putin’s florid compliments about Mr Xi.

From BBC • Jun. 19, 2024

Yoyo and her sisters were forgetting a lot of their Spanish, and their father's formal, florid diction was hard to understand.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez