Adjectivisation

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The lexo-crime of taking a perfectly good verb, making it cosplay as an adjective and then demeaning it by sticking an inferior, dull, verb in front of it. Dead giveaways: often used with the passive and the word of.

This sentence is indicative of adjectivisation.
This one indicates elegant prose.

See also

• nominalisation