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
To lament their lack of poetry is to miss their admirable rhetoric; to regret their imperfect feeling for decorativeness is to miss their delightful decorum.
From French Art Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture by W. C. (William Crary) Brownell
The candy was of an inexpensive variety—Patty had discovered the ten-cent store—but the boxes that contained it made up in decorativeness what the candy lacked; they were sprinkled with Cupids and roses in vivid profusion.
From Just Patty by C. M. (Charles Mark) Relyea
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 William Dean Howells
