gild the lily
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adorn unnecessarily (something that is already beautiful)
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Classifications
Cognitive
Understand72%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
Responsibility
Unclassified—trigger_default_value
Automation
Unclassified—trigger_default_value
Variants
- synonym
- paint the lily
- pasttense
- gilded the lily
- presentparticiple
- gilding the lily
- thirdpersonsingular
- gilds the lily
- pastparticiple
- gilded the lily
Framework definitions
- §1
- make unnecessary additions to what is already complete
- §2
- adorn unnecessarily (something that is already beautiful)
- §1 · legacy_primary
- adorn unnecessarily (something that is already beautiful)DR-088 backfill from the verb definition column
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