empurpled
em·purp·led
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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