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with bells and whistles

ADJECTIVE

elaborate

Synonyms

STRONG

busy complicated decorated detailed embellished exact fancy garnished imposing labored ornamented overdone overworked perfected refined sophisticated studied

WEAK

careful complex elegant extensive extravagant fussy high-tech highly wrought knotty labyrinthine luxurious many-faceted minute ornate ostentatious painstaking plush posh precise prodigious showy skillful thorough with all the extras with all the options

Antonyms

STRONG

easy facile natural simple uncultured unrefined unsophisticated

WEAK

general normal plain regular uncomplicated unelaborate uninvolved usual

Example Sentences

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Bring the intensity and work rate and aggression and character of Thursday against Tottenham to Hampden - achieved, with bells and whistles attached.

From BBC • Dec. 15, 2024

I don’t think I can pull the wool over people’s eyes with bells and whistles in terms of performance, and I’m actually glad I can’t do that.

From New York Times • Dec. 6, 2023

The bridge is equipped with bells and whistles to alert drivers and pedestrians that the drawbridge is going up.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 7, 2022

But they add up to a well-made device with bells and whistles Facebook either doesn’t have or sells separately.

From The Verge • Jul. 23, 2021

The river craft steamed and puffed, and blockaded the landing, now backing water and now forging forward, remonstrating with bells and whistles in strenuous dialogue.

From The Storm Centre by Murfree, Mary Noailles

with bells and whistles

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