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full of fine words and fancy expressions
- the flowery verses that always appear on valentines
Synonyms for flowery
- aureate,
- florid,
- grandiloquent,
- highfalutin
- (also hifalutin),
- high-flown,
- high-sounding,
- magnific,
- ornate,
- purple,
- rhetorical
- (also rhetoric)
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“Flowery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flowery. Accessed 8 Dec. 2021.
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The first known use of flowery was in the 14th century
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