frilly

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I tend to shy away from frilly, and lean towards clean and utilitarian.

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  • Marissa told me about this cute, frilly, colorful dress.
  • The covers were drawn up to her shoulders, so all he could see of her sleepwear was that there was nothing frilly or sexy about it, maybe just a T-shirt or something like that, colorless and shapeless. —  Hooper, Kay - Whisper of Evil
  • At three o'clock, he discovered to his horror that he had sketched its frilly-necked silhouette across the final draft of a report for a corporate client. —  F ;SF; - vol 086 issue 05 - May 1994
  • If they follow a pattern: max-min, bright-somber, plain-frilly, and so on—they can be sure that they're dressed more or less right most of the time. —  AUGUST, 1953 VOL
  • Everything was shiny and frilly, about halfway between classy and way too much. —  Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Feb 2002
 

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