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flor·id

 (flôr′ĭd, flŏr′-)
adj.
1. Flushed with rosy color; ruddy.
2. Very ornate; flowery: a florid prose style.
3. Archaic Healthy.
4. Obsolete Abounding in or covered with flowers.

[French floride, from Latin flōridus, from flōs, flōr-, flower; see bhel- in Indo-European roots.]

flo·rid′i·ty (flə-rĭd′ĭ-tē, flô-), flor′id·ness n.
flor′id·ly adv.
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Adv.1.floridly - in a florid manner; "floridly figurative prose"
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They were strange ornaments to bring on a sea voyage--china pugs, tea-sets in miniature, cups stamped floridly with the arms of the city of Bristol, hair-pin boxes crusted with shamrock, antelopes' heads in coloured plaster, together with a multitude of tiny photographs, representing downright workmen in their Sunday best, and women holding white babies.
The woman - stick-thin and floridly psychotic - who thought Tony Blair was trying to kill her.
It is all here: the 'biomorphic whiplash' lines, the floridly decorative use of iron and glass, the obsessively detailed joinery and the intense interplay of materials and surfaces.
"I do not know any other illness that it's okay to discharge people in the middle of the night, floridly psychotic, and then when they don't behave the way that we need them to behave, we arrest them," he said.
He grosses everyone out with his loud slurping of spaghetti when he isn't floridly philosophizing on the difficultly of attaining "the American dream" or being maudlin as he walks down memory lane.
By day five, I was completely and floridly psychotic, convinced
It won't blow you away, and there's often an imbalance when it comes to its depiction of conflict, but 'Mute' manages to find just the right words, often painted by the 'pictures' it floridly presents.
The other was the donna-madre: she was national, rural, floridly robust, tranquil, and prolific" (p.
J deteriorated rapidly in his mental state, with floridly disorganised thoughts (word salad), both increased and decreased psychomotor activity (singing, hugging staff, and statuesque posture), severe insomnia (no sleep for 3 days), visual hallucinations, fluctuating disorientation and inattention, and urinary incontinence.
Here Eily's troubles begin, or restart, because Stephen is a floridly bruised individual who has tried to smother his own history of violent sexual abuse (by his mother) with a life of ruinous addiction and almost rigorous promiscuity.
The second argues instead that male sexual appetite, as floridly depicted by Krafft-Ebing, is so voracious in and of itself that it tempts all men to perverse experimentation.
The property isn't listed on the open market, so few details of the couple's overhaul are publicly known, but digital resources indicate the sleekly rehabbed contemporary--prior to the renovation, it was floridly ersatz Tuscan villa --opens at the rear to a flat backyard with broad canyon views, a lushly watered sweep of lawn, newly installed swimming pool and spa, and open-air poolside cabana.