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  • 21high-falooting — Descriptive, slightly derogatory term, used to describe someone perceived as living in a gawdy, slightly vulgar manner. Just look at them high falooting bigshots in them fancy cars. Highfalutin …

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  • 22mispelings — Misspelled or misunderstood words submitted to the pseudodictionary. The examples are from actual submittals four (summerize, essey, shakespear, and charachters) came from a single submittal. Some of the misspellings have been entered as new… …

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  • 23high-falooting — Descriptive, slightly derogatory term, used to describe someone perceived as living in a gawdy, slightly vulgar manner. Just look at them high falooting bigshots in them fancy cars. Highfalutin …

    Dictionary of american slang

  • 24mispelings — Misspelled or misunderstood words submitted to the pseudodictionary. The examples are from actual submittals four (summerize, essey, shakespear, and charachters) came from a single submittal. Some of the misspellings have been entered as new… …

    Dictionary of american slang

  • 25flashy — a. 1. Showy, ostentatious, flaunting, gawdy, tawdry, pretentious, tinsel, glittering but superficial. 2. Insipid, tasteless, mawkish, flat, vapid, stale …

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  • 26adorned — adj 1. decorated, embellished, trimmed, garnished, furbished, ornamented; embroidered, elaborated, festooned; arrayed, bedizened, bedecked, decked out, trapped out, caparisoned; spangled, bespangled, studded, bestudded, beset; emblazoned,… …

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  • 27baroque — adj 1. ornate, elaborate, involved, busy, fussy, frilly; overdone, overwrought, overworked, overlabored; rococo, arabesque, rocaille. 2. ostentatious, meretricious, flamboyant, showy, flashy, Sl. flash; gawdy, garish, tawdry, florid, flowery.… …

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  • 28many-colored — adj multicolored, polychrome, polychromatic, many hued, variegated, rainbowlike, rain bowy; iridescent, irisated, opalescent; versicolor, particolored, kaleidoscopic; spectral, prismatic; gawdy, flashy, garish; like the aurora borealis; piebald,… …

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  • 29ornamental — adj 1. decorative, decorating, embellishing, adorning, garnishing, ornamenting; sightly, fair, attractive, graceful, enhancing, becoming, agreeable. 2. ornate, fancy, elaborate, busy; baroque, rococo, arabesque; florid, flowery. 3. ostentatious,… …

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  • 30ornate — adj 1. elaborate, involved, busy; fussy, frilly; baroque, rococo, arabesque. 2. elegant, fine, fancy; rich, lush, luxurious, luxuriant, sumptuous; brilliant, dazzling, glittering; gilt, begilt. 3. labored, richly wrought, highly wrought; overdone …

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