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  • 11Religious Painting —     Religious Painting     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Religious Painting     Painting has always been associated with the life of the Church. From the time of the Catacombs it has been used in ecclesiastical ornamentation, and for centuries after… …

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  • 12toolishness — noun a) The nature of being a tool. The simplest tool I can think of is a piece of gravel used for making a road. Nothing is done to it, it owes its being a tool to the fact that is subserves a purpose. A broken piece of granite used for… …

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  • 13garish — I adjective bedizened, blatant, blinding, cheap, cheaply magnificent, coarse, crude, dazzling, flamboyant, flashy, flaunting, gaudy, glaring, glittering, in bad taste, indelicate, loud, obtrusive, ostentatious, pompous, pretentious, showy,… …

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  • 14meretricious — I adjective artificial, bedizened, brummagem, cheap, counterfeit, deceitful, deceptive, delusive, fake, false, fraudulent, garish, gaudy, imitation, misleading, mock, ornate, sham, showy, speciously attractive, spurious, tawdry, theatrical,… …

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  • 15tawdry — I adjective baroque, bedizened, blatant, brummagem, catchpenny, cheap, common, crass, crude, flashy, garish, gaudy, glaring, glittering, inelegant, loud, meretricious, ostentatious, pretentious, shoddy, showy, sleazy, tasteless, tinsel, vulgar II …

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  • 16Johnsonian — Synonyms and related words: Gongoresque, affected, bedizened, big sounding, convoluted, declamatory, elevated, euphuistic, flamboyant, flaming, flashy, flaunting, fulsome, garish, gaudy, grandiloquent, grandiose, grandisonant, high flowing, high… …

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  • 17adorned — Synonyms and related words: beaded, bedecked, bedizened, befrilled, bejeweled, beribboned, bespangled, colored, decked out, decorated, embellished, embroidered, fancy, feathered, festooned, figurative, figured, florid, flowered, flowery,… …

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  • 18affected — Synonyms and related words: Gongoresque, Gongoristic, Johnsonian, Marinistic, Tartuffian, Tartuffish, afflicted, agonized, apocryphal, artificial, assumed, attacked, awkward, bastard, bedizened, big sounding, bogus, brummagem, canting, chichi,… …

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  • 19beaded — Synonyms and related words: adorned, bead like, bead shaped, beady, bedecked, bedizened, befrilled, bejeweled, beribboned, bespangled, decked out, decorated, embellished, feathered, festooned, figured, flowered, garnished, jeweled, ornamented,… …

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  • 20bedecked — Synonyms and related words: adorned, appareled, arrayed, attired, beaded, bedizened, befrilled, bejeweled, beribboned, bespangled, breeched, capped, chausse, clad, cloaked, clothed, coifed, costumed, decked, decked out, decorated, dight,… …

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