flowery (adj.)
- adorned
- affected
- allusive
- ambrosial
- aromatic
- artificial
- aureate
- balmy
- baroque
- blooming
- bombastic
- busy
- chichi
- colored
- declamatory
- decorated
- diffuse
- efflorescent
- elaborate
- elaborated
- elegant
- embellished
- fancy
- figurative
- figured
- fine
- flamboyant
- floral
- florescent
- floricultural
- florid
- flowered
- flowering
- fragrant
- frilly
- fruity
- fussy
- garden
- grandiloquent
- high-flown
- horticultural
- inflated
- labored
- lush
- luxuriant
- luxurious
- magniloquent
- mannered
- metaphorical
- moresque
- musky
- odoriferous
- odorous
- ornamented
- ornate
- ostentatious
- overblown
- overloaded
- overwrought
- perfumed
- picturesque
- pompous
- pretty-pretty
- prolix
- purple
- redolent
- redundant
- referential
- rich
- rococo
- savory
- scented
- showy
- sonorous
- spicy
- sweet
- sweet-scented
- sweet-smelling
- swollen
- verbose
- wordy
Shall I, wasting in despair,
Die because a woman's fair?
Or make pale my cheeks with care,
'Cause another's rosy are?
Be she fairer than the day,
Or the flowery meads in May,
If she be not so to me,
What care I how fair she be?
Flowery oratory he despised. He ascribed to the interested views of themselves or their relatives the declarations of pretended patriots, of whom he said, "All those men have their price."
