as in rhetoric
full of fine words and fancy expressions
an overwritten novel with far too many purple patches
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Recent Examples of purple
Everyone else was brown and purple.
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Seija Rankin, HollywoodReporter, 26 Sep. 2025
There are fewer purple districts and purple states today.
—Craig Gilbert, jsonline.com, 25 Sep. 2025
Oh, and those pinkish-purple shirts the Europeans wore during that comeback?
—Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 25 Sep. 2025
Other states with large independent voter shares include New Hampshire, Connecticut, North Carolina, Iowa and Oregon, showing how independent voters are spread throughout red, blue and purple states.
—Julia Manchester, The Hill, 24 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for purple
Seija Rankin, HollywoodReporter, 26 Sep. 2025
There are fewer purple districts and purple states today.
—Craig Gilbert, jsonline.com, 25 Sep. 2025
Oh, and those pinkish-purple shirts the Europeans wore during that comeback?
—Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 25 Sep. 2025
Other states with large independent voter shares include New Hampshire, Connecticut, North Carolina, Iowa and Oregon, showing how independent voters are spread throughout red, blue and purple states.
—Julia Manchester, The Hill, 24 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for purple
Recent Examples of Synonyms for purple
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Still, there’s reason for unease when critics of Israel use the Holocaust as a rhetorical weapon against the Jewish state.—
Ian Buruma,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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Here are some of the rhetorical highlights in their own words.—
Ronald J. Hansen,
AZCentral.com,
22 Sep. 2025
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The Truth Teller building is a nine-story, ornate 1920s building downtown, and the newspaper is now on half of the ninth floor and the other half is a toilet paper sales office.—
Emily Zemler,
Rolling Stone,
21 Sep. 2025
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The production and mixing are impressively ornate, a wedding cake that could topple if one note lands out of place.—
William Earl,
Variety,
21 Sep. 2025
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“Purple.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/purple. Accessed 28 Sep. 2025.
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