overadjectived

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1. Having too many adjectives.

   For a critic to declare these lines overadjectived and overwritten would not be a matter for surprise.

   1986, Richard Poole, Richard Hughes: Novelist, Poetry Wales Press, →ISBN, page 93

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   It is [Joseph] Conrad’s earliest style, a little lush, perhaps, a little overadjectived, but already the style of a man who knew how to subordinate the individual word to the total impression—a man who would always be the master, never the servant, of words[.]

   1939, David Daiches, The Novel and the Modern World, Chicago, Ill.: The University of Chicago Press, published 1948, page 63

   Yet, as he stumbles through rhapsodic and overadjectived descriptions of the wild and lonely loveliness of nature, he reminds himself that simple phrasing is best.

   1975, Lewis Leary, Soundings: Some Early American Writers, Athens, Ga.: The University of Georgia Press, →ISBN, page 183

   You’re an avid Pinterester and you can’t resist a good brunch or over-adjective’d Starbucks order.

   2016, Grace Helbig, Grace & Style: The Art of Pretending You Have It, Touchstone, →ISBN, page 89