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
It is quite strong-scented, but the flowers are very handsome, rivaling in decorativeness many of the cherished plants of our gardens.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons
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 Robert Huntington Fletcher
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
