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empurpled

em·purp·led

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noun

adjective

1.

excessively elaborate or showily expressed

  • “a writer of empurpled literature”
  • “many purple passages”
  • “speech embellished with classical quotations”
  • “an over-embellished story of the fish that got away”

Phrases

  • purple prose

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