High-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation.
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He was well-clothed, but with a shade too much ornateness.
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I remembered being moved by the music, and astounded by the ornateness of the theater.
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Apologists for the building say that the profuse ornateness rightly suggests the richness of California's horticulture.
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His English was a marvel of ignorant ornateness, like his vest and his watch-chain and rings.
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Naivete is to be desired rather than ornateness.
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He is also known for a series of rules on writing that, like those by George Orwell, stress clarity over ornateness.
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The ornateness of it, the mannered swoops and swirls, surprised him- areactionthat the landlady apparently divined, for she said, Uh-huh.
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The ruptured dome, graven and blackened by its own encrusted ornateness, pushed fatly at the towers that buttressed its enormous weight.
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The taxicab surprised her by stopping suddenly before a brown-fronted residence adjoining an apartment-house of (more or less literally) meretricious ornateness.