decorative
adjective
serving or tending to decorate.
decorativeness
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a word derived from
decorative.
Example Sentences
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We’re attracted to it, and that attraction is what makes the painting disturbing, haunting—yet without diminishing its decorativeness: quite a feat to pull off.
From Slate ● Oct. 5, 2012
The wave of assassinations of national lead ers underscored the need to select Vice Presidents for reasons other than ticket balancing or decorativeness.
From Time Magazine Archive
You will by this means increase your decorativeness, and what is of more serious importance, your economic value.
From Woman as Decoration by Burbank, Emily
Far nobler and more beautiful than its Arabic decorativeness in tinted stucco is the palace begun by Charles V., after a design in the spirit of the supreme hour of the Italian Renaissance.
From Familiar Spanish Travels by Howells, William Dean
In much of his later work there is a marked change from his earlier elaborate decorativeness to a style of vigorous strength.
From A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington
