chocolate-box
excessively decorative and sentimental, as the pictures or designs on some boxes of chocolate candy; prettified: decorous, chocolate-box paintings of Victorian garden parties.
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How to use chocolate-box in a sentence
No, mark you, he'd take jolly good care that his sentimentality didn't make him see her as a chocolate-box picture!
The Twilight of the Souls | Louis CouperusAfter all these weeks you're going to throw me away like an old chocolate-box.
The Vanity Girl | Compton MackenzieLike that, like that, at any rate, she no longer looked like the picture on a chocolate-box.
The Twilight of the Souls | Louis CouperusNot strictly beautiful, perhaps; but then I don't like the chocolate-box sort of woman.
Plays: Lady Frederick, The Explorer, A Man of Honor | William Somerset MaughamAnnabel had wriggled off the sofa and was pointing to a gay chocolate box on the mahogany wash-stand that served as a sideboard.
Tommy Tregennis | Mary Elizabeth Phillips
British Dictionary definitions for chocolate-box
(modifier) informal sentimentally pretty or appealing
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