Word Finder - extravagant

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Exceeding the bounds of something; roving; hence, foreign.

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Extreme; wild; excessive; unrestrained.

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extravagant acts, praise, or abuse

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Exorbitant.

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Profuse in expenditure; prodigal; wasteful.

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an extravagant man;  extravagant expense

She always sent extravagant gifts to her daughter.

His extravagant pretensions only served to excite ridicule.

The couple lived a very simple life with no need for extravagant purchases.

Well, don't get too extravagant.

His new log home was nice, but not extravagant.

These can be very simple or extremely extravagant.

Don't you think that's a little extravagant?

Drury lost his only daughter, and in 1611 Donne published an extravagant elegy on her, entitled An Anatomy of the World, to which he added in 1612 a Progress of the Soul on the same subject; he threatened to celebrate the "blessed Maid," Elizabeth Drury, in a fresh elegy on each anniversary of her death, but he happily refrained from the third occasion onwards.

He was extravagant in denunciation, and developed a Zwinglian view of the Eucharist.

But he was extravagant and self-indulgent, and he wanted more money than they were willing to supply.

Like his father, he was very fond of music, but he appears to have been less extravagant than John George II.

Though Erasmus led a very hard-working and far from luxurious life, and had no extravagant habits, yet he could not live upon little.

His whole soul was wrapped up in his only son, of whose abilities he had the most extravagant estimate and hope.

At the same time, while accepting the Schellingian parallelistic identity of all things in God, Fechner was restrained by his accurate knowledge of physics from the extravagant construction of Nature, which had failed in the hands of Schelling and Hegel.

A gift that's too extravagant may be greeted with embarrassment instead of appreciation.

In his old age Constantine, who had once been a famous warrior, utterly neglected the defences of the empire and reduced his army by disbanding 50,000 of his best troops; on the other hand, he spent extravagant sums on luxuries and the erection of magnificent buildings.

The work was bitterly attacked by Freeman, whose "extravagant Saxonism" Pearson had been unable to adopt.

Sarah always asked about their daughters and sent extravagant gifts home.

Extravagant expenditure on railways and public works, loose administration of finance, the cost of colonial enterprise, the growing demands for the army and navy, the impending tariff war with France, and the overspeculation in building and in industrial ventures, which had absorbed all the floating capital of the country, had combined to produce a state of affairs calling for firm and radical treatment.

He was a man of extravagant and luxurious tastes, and, although he greatly improved the city of Dresden, he cannot be called a good ruler.

Nine pounds for ninety pages on a film you might have trouble finding at even the most diligently cataloged video shop often seems extravagant.

Add a spoonful of cream if you are feeling extravagant.

After his death, Hadrian caused the most extravagant respect to be paid to his memory.

It may well be doubted, however, whether his own extravagant desire for military glory was not equally injurious to his W country.

He presents himself as an altogether human person, brave enough in the field, and, at least when young, capable of extravagant devotion to an ideal, provided the ideal was fashionable, but having at bottom a sufficient respect for his own skin and a full consciousness of the side on which his bread is buttered.

In many places they have the monopoly of the wine and spirit shops, and retail trade generally; and as they are always willing to advance money on usury, and are more intelligent and better educated than the ordinary peasant, there is little doubt that in a country where the large landowners are proverbially extravagant, and the peasant proprietors needy, the soil would soon fall into the hands of the Jews were it not for the stringent laws which prevent them from owning land outside the towns.

A series of extravagant entertainments given by the society during the winter of 1832 reduced its financial resources and greatly discredited it in character.

Apart from this extravagant eulogy, it is absurd to regard Apollonius merely as a vulgar charlatan and miracle-monger.

The political writing, too, much of it in a garish, extravagant style, exercised his deeper ambitions, and stands as witness to the working of original thought and foresight.

The extortions by which he sought to raise money for his extravagant pleasures excited a rising known as that of the arme Konrad (poor Conrad), not unlike the rebellion in England led by Wat Tyler; order was soon restored, and in 1514 by the treaty of Tubingen the people undertook to pay the duke's debts in return for various political privileges, which in effect laid the foundation of the constitutional liberties of the country.

For example, we find him arguing for the legitimacy of judicial punishments and military service against an over-literal interpretation of the Sermon on the Mount; and he took an important part in giving currency to the distinction between evangelical " counsels " and " commands," and so defending the life of marriage and temperate enjoyment of natural good against the attacks of the more extravagant advocate of celibacy and self-abnegation; although he fully admitted the superiority of the latter method of avoiding the contamination of sin.

Moreover, the split in the Unionist party brought the united Liberal party in full force into the field, and at last the country began to think that the danger of Irish Home Rule was practically over, and that a Liberal majority might be returned to power in safety, with the prospect of providing an alternative government which would assure commercial repose (Lord Rosebery's phrase), relief from extravagant expenditure, and - as the working-classes were led to believe - a certain amount of labour legislation which the Tory leaders would never propose.

A major source of this picture of Venice was the extravagant behavior of Venetian courtesans, as well as their extravagant cost.

In typically extravagant yet classical Italian style, the 17th century cupola is formed by green and yellow majolica roof tiles.

Having worked out that we had barely a handful of sous between us, we didn't do anything extravagant.

Let me now justify these perhaps seemingly extravagant claims.

Will Mary and Peter manage this somewhat extravagant but chilling mission or is the world as we know be plunged into a living hell!

Built in 1872, Nutfield Priory was designed to reflect the rather extravagant architecture of the Palace of Westminster.

Younger children loved the surprise element as each page turned and the pop-ups grew increasingly extravagant.

Who says a seven course meal is too extravagant?

The forecasts for the growth of e-learning are becoming more extravagant by the month.

The general advancement of Australia, to the era of the goldmining, had been satisfactory, in spite of a severe commercial crisis, from 1841 to 1843, caused by extravagant land speculations and inflated prices.

They have, moreover, thrown off from time to time a number of extravagant offshoots.

Dissidence of all kinds has made a considerable advance since the emancipation of the serfs in 1861, the increase - as might be expected in a wholly illiterate population - being greatest in the more extravagant sects.

He made his first public appearance in Vienna in 1887, in Paris in 1889, and in London in 1890, his brilliant playing created a furore which went to almost extravagant lengths of admiration; and his triumphs were repeated in America in 1891.

Of the many paradoxes in the Divine Legation, few are more extravagant than the theory that Virgil, in the sixth book of his Aeneid, intended to allegorize, in the visit of his hero and the Sibyl to the shades, the initiation of Aeneas, as a lawgiver, into the Eleusinian mysteries.

The privileges conferred by the Organic Statute were confirmed; the cumbersome and extravagant judicial and administrative systems were maintained; the judges were declared independent of the executive, and an Assembly composed of forty-nine Christian and thirty-one Mussulman deputies took the place of the former general council.

The fate of the town had excited the liveliest sympathy in England, and the exuberant rejoicings in London on the news of its relief led to the coining of the word magicking to describe the behaviour of crowds on occasions of extravagant demonstrations of a national kind.

On the death of Drusus, Agrippa, who had been recklessly extravagant, was obliged to leave Rome, overwhelmed with debt.

On the 1st of February 1713 he was attacked by the Turks in his camp at Bender, and made prisoner after a contest which reads more like an extravagant episode from some heroic folk-tale than an incident of sober 18th-century history.