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Meanings of lavishness in English
Catalan
prodigalitat Spanish
gran vida Synonyms
Examples for "extravagance"
Examples for "extravagance"
1
The extravagance of the debates of those years amazes the modern reader.
2
That said, it was still a stunning example of balls-out gamer extravagance.
3
People shook their heads; a few suggested speculations; all agreed on extravagance.
4
Wealth rolled in upon him; he entered upon a career of extravagance.
5
But the extravagance of the satire in some measure injures its effect.
1
Those tales of the Far South were given out with some prodigality.
2
She had no care for the future, and exceeded men in prodigality.
3
The effects of misconduct are often the same as those of prodigality.
4
But neither is liberality a principal virtue, nor prodigality a capital vice.
5
Schubert, alone of all the composers, resembles him in his lyric prodigality.
1
Into this maelstrom of the Herculaneum highlife our mad ox eagerly plunged.
2
He started off with highlife but then got down with Afro-funk.
3
All sorts of musical ingredients and outside influences entered the highlife mix during its glorious heyday.
4
His early recordings were in the highlife style, the first modern popular music of Ghana and Nigeria.
5
Generally I shy away from putting music into boxes but for highlife I'm happy to make an exception.
1
That is the way things are managed in high life in Europe.
2
The event was eagerly anticipated in the fashionable circles of high life.
3
It was a great dinner-all in the tastes of high life.
4
I'll retire with all this beautiful money, and live the high life.
5
I always thought the high life, the cigarettes, would see her off.
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.
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