over-embellished

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over-embellished - excessively elaborate or showily expressed; "a writer of empurpled literature"; "many purple passages"; "an over-embellished story of the fish that got away"

empurpled, purple

rhetorical - given to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought; "mere rhetorical frippery"

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As if his over-embellished, overpriced, fussy, frumpy outfits weren't gaudy enough, Peter Simon, the boss of Monsoon, has gone further in his pursuit of poor taste.

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