extravagantly

[ UK /ɛkstɹˈævəɡəntli/ ]
[ US /ˌɛkˈstɹævəɡəntɫi/ ]
ADVERB
  1. in an abundant manner
    he thanked her profusely
    they were abundantly supplied with food
  2. in a wasteful manner
    the United States, up to the 1920s, used fuel lavishly, mainly because it was so cheap
  3. in a rich and lavish manner
    lavishly decorated
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How To Use extravagantly In A Sentence

  • Like jazz, rap extravagantly syncopates a flexible rhythm against a fixed metrical beat thereby turning a traditional English folk meter into something distinctively African-American.
  • Meilir Rhys Williams captures Dennis's anguished flightiness and Oedipal instincts: he extravagantly dances Kirsten Clark as his mum round the living room and allows himself to be lovingly cradled in her lap. Over Gardens Out - review
  • The Monroes continued to entertain extravagantly.
  • It was extravagantly decorated and a side table was filled with small treats and dainties.
  • (Survey report 6801 summarizing Adm. 68/195, 156v, and other data in Adm. 68/194 and/196, found in the microfilms of the Virginia Colonial Records Project, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia; A letter of Carter's executors to Dawkins 1738 May 10 refers to "your ship Bailey.") [3] According to the Oxford English Dictionary, a "rodomontade" is "a vainglorious brag or boast; an extravagantly boastful or arrogant saying or speech. Letter from Robert Carter to Edward Athawes, July 31, 1731
  • In real life they looked small, sallow, extravagantly Vaselined, with poofter pompadours and funny shoes.
  • She is, at 53, shorter than you'd expect, broad in the beam and still so extravagantly beautiful she appears unreal.
  • From the outside, the turreted building, with its terracotta roof tiles, looks like any extravagantly large house on an upmarket estate.
  • The team found that in the previous two decades industrial society had gone into overshoot - the term environmental scientists use for a population of living things that is consuming vital resources so extravagantly that the ability of their environment to keep supporting them is at risk. P2P Foundation
  • I like "Sit in on an AA meeting" and "Extravagantly overtip a bartender," but this one is my fave: Boing Boing: March 14, 2004 - March 20, 2004 Archives
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