Overadjectived
"Overadjectived" in a Sentence (4 examples)
It is [Joseph] Conrad’s earliest style, a little lush, perhaps, a little overadjectived, but already the style of a man who knew how to subordinate the individual word to the total impression—a man who would always be the master, never the servant, of words[.]
Yet, as he stumbles through rhapsodic and overadjectived descriptions of the wild and lonely loveliness of nature, he reminds himself that simple phrasing is best.
For a critic to declare these lines overadjectived and overwritten would not be a matter for surprise.
You’re an avid Pinterester and you can’t resist a good brunch or over-adjective’d Starbucks order.
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