Example Sentences

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He tends to exaggerate and overdecorate, but under the hyperbole is a kernel of truth.

From New York Times • Feb. 20, 2020

I would just put big simple sofas in it; you don’t need to overdecorate.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 23, 2015

It was far better, Olmsted lectured, to underdecorate than to overdecorate.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson