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Meanings of
lavishness
in English
Catalan
prodigalitat
Spanish
gran vida
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Excessive spending.
extravagance
prodigality
highlife
high life
Catalan
prodigalitat
Portuguese
luxo
Catalan
sumptuositat
Spanish
lujo
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The quality possessed by something that is excessively expensive.
luxury
sumptuousness
sumptuosity
Portuguese
luxo
Usage of
lavishness
in English
1
His
lavishness
was indiscriminate except in that he entertained only the rich.
2
And you know the
lavishness
of the big ranches, then and now.
3
To all questions as to the surprising
lavishness
of cost, Diggory replied:
4
She sheds it on me hourly with a
lavishness
which scares me.
5
The liberal man tends to err in the direction of
lavishness
.
6
Then at the thought of this
lavishness
Olivia was stricken dumb.
7
But I am not going to compete with this undistinguished
lavishness
.
8
He had been spending money with a
lavishness
that he wondered at now.
9
It's no mystery that Nureyev was obsessed with dreams of grandeur and
lavishness
.
10
She was constructed, she was erected, as it were, with a regal
lavishness
.
11
Her favors distributed with mad
lavishness
over the four corners of the globe!
12
I love the extravagance of genius, the barbaric
lavishness
of moral and intellectual supremacy.
13
Here was a
lavishness
of expenditure, a conscience in building, rare in modern times.
14
Nor did it err on the side of
over
-
lavishness
to those who served it.
15
Throughout the day they shelled the Russian trenches, spending ammunition with their customary
lavishness
.
16
One after another their London houses were opened and decorated with the utmost
lavishness
.
Other examples for "lavishness"
Grammar, pronunciation and more
About this term
lavishness
Noun
Singular
Frequent collocations
regal lavishness
such lavishness
accumulate the lavishness
barbaric lavishness
bend upon lavishness
More collocations
Translations for
lavishness
Catalan
prodigalitat
sumptuositat
fast
luxe
fastuositat
magnificència
Spanish
gran vida
prodigalidad
suntuosidad
extravagancia
lujo
Portuguese
luxo
sumptuosidade
Lavishness
through the time
Lavishness
across language varieties
United Kingdom
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