overelaborate
Example Sentences
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The Portuguese design genius for mixing the pious with playfully overelaborated touches reaches its apotheosis at this Unesco World Heritage site—Portugal’s equivalent of France’s monumental Cathedral of Chartres.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
In some of the later work the collective effort shades over into an almost corporate look--not slick, exactly, but overelaborated, as though done partly on autopilot.
From Time Magazine Archive
But if they are overelaborated, the whole performance becomes automatic and dull.
From The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2 by United States. Dept. of Defense
