overelaborate

Example sentences from the Web for overelaborate

• "I see," said I—for Mr. Brisher is apt to overelaborate his jokes.

  Twelve Stories and a Dream|H. G. Wells

• It was a Cosway; but a Cosway broadened and without a hint of genteel namby-pamby or overelaborate finesse.

  Visionaries|James Huneker

• We had had two meals, one of which was as totally unnecessary as the other was overelaborate.

  The Message|Alec John Dawson

• It is a work unique, perhaps, in its design, but entirely unfeeling and preposterous in its overelaborate decorations.

  The Cathedrals of Southern France|Francis Miltoun