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- adjective
pretentiously orostentatiously decorated. - adjective
cluttered
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Examples
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A huge, dark, high-ceilinged room, oppressively overfurnished with high-backed leather chairs, carved oaken side tables, tasseled lamps, and sofas with deedle-ball trim.
THE BOYS FROM SANTA CRUZ Jonathan Nasaw 2010
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A huge, dark, high-ceilinged room, oppressively overfurnished with high-backed leather chairs, carved oaken side tables, tasseled lamps, and sofas with deedle-ball trim.
THE BOYS FROM SANTA CRUZ Jonathan Nasaw 2010
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A huge, dark, high-ceilinged room, oppressively overfurnished with high-backed leather chairs, carved oaken side tables, tasseled lamps, and sofas with deedle-ball trim.
THE BOYS FROM SANTA CRUZ Jonathan Nasaw 2010
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A huge, dark, high-ceilinged room, oppressively overfurnished with high-backed leather chairs, carved oaken side tables, tasseled lamps, and sofas with deedle-ball trim.
THE BOYS FROM SANTA CRUZ Jonathan Nasaw 2010
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They were hugely overfurnished — massive, darkly oiled pieces, china figurines on every surface.
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They were hugely overfurnished — massive, darkly oiled pieces, china figurines on every surface.
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They were hugely overfurnished — massive, darkly oiled pieces, china figurines on every surface.
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It is overfurnished with two threadbare easy chairs, a matching threadbare sofa, and a coffee table that seems to have been dragged in from the streets.
Hotel Baghdad 2005
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It is overfurnished with two threadbare easy chairs, a matching threadbare sofa, and a coffee table that seems to have been dragged in from the streets.
Hotel Baghdad 2005
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To suggest that Brookner is a comic writer might seem perverse; she is, after all, celebrated as the mistress of gloom, the creator of a claustrophobic, overfurnished world in which heat is always oppressive, in which a cup of warm milk offers a welcome conclusion to a slow day of perambulation, in which rejection usually leads to physical decline, and in which anything so robust as physical exercise is roundly condemned.
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