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The crime of taking a perfectly good verb and converting it into an adjective, and sticking an inferior verb in front of it. Often used with the passive and the word of.
This sentence is indicative of adjectivisation.
This one indicates elegant prose.
See also
Plain English Anatomy™ Noun | Verb | Adjective | Adverb | Preposition | Conjunction | Latin | Germany | Flannel | Legal triplicate | Nominalisation | Murder your darlings
This was the 1,900th substantive article posted on this site, at 16:18pm on August 30, 2017. People were having less fun one hundred years ago.