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Meanings of sumptuousness in English
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Examples for "lavishness"
Examples for "lavishness"
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.
1
Neither Lyons, Bordeaux, Nantes, can compare with it for sumptuosity.
2
Site, sumptuosity, climate, vegetation here attain their acme; so far, indeed, Nice may be pronounced flawless.
3
To facilitate matters the two friends progressively modified the sumptuosity of the program they had imposed upon themselves.
4
He was rather a favourite with the regiment, treating the young officers with sumptuosity, and amusing them by his military airs.
5
Which will seem a strange doctrine, in these days of gold-nuggets, railway-fortunes, and miraculous, sumptuosities regardless of expense.
Usage of sumptuousness in English
1
Some of them are almost palatial in size and sumptuousness of arrangement.
2
Her house was magnificent, her private apartments almost stifling in their sumptuousness.
3
Garrick took pride in their sumptuousness, in their immaculate, virginal splendour.
4
The first impression made by the Medici frescoes is their sumptuousness.
5
His brother, Chantonnay, reproached him with the sumptuousness and disorder of his establishment.
6
There had been banquets of staggering sumptuousness in the Great Hall of Paras Derval.
7
He's the guest of a Viceroy and living in sumptuousness.
8
All this "crowded sumptuousness" was due to the taste of Lady Blessington.
9
The arrangements are practically uniform however great may be the differences of sumptuousness and spaciousness.
10
Ascher does not care for sumptuousness or abundance; but he knows how to eat well.
11
The gardens were laid out with art and sumptuousness.
12
Hereby was expressed the utmost sumptuousness of a palace.
13
It gets a first-rate production from Laurence Boswell, which is physically spare yet implies sumptuousness.
14
Ti Green's design pulls sumptuousness out of spareness.
15
But Titian was all for sumptuousness.
16
Indeed, a great deal of the pomp and sumptuousness of the world's history was simple in the truest sense.
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Sumptuousness through the time