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extravagantly

adverb as in lavishly

adverb as in verbosely

adverb as in wastefully

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Example Sentences

Bombastic flowers of extravagant colors and shapes hang from the nightclub’s roof.

“There was definitely some extravagant spending,” the prosecutor said.

Otherwise, the combination of ground prawns seasoned with garlic and ground pork marinated in Shaoxing wine — the filling for the fluttery dumplings — is extravagant, and richer for the broth in which they bob.

I’m not saying you should plan an extravagant outdoor adventure for your dog, and then bring yourself along for the ride, but I’m not not saying that, either.

In campaign season, candidates make extravagant promises about all the bills they will pass.

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Irwin appears to have spent his career championing ideas that were simultaneously perfectly logical and extravagantly bizarre.

There were a few extravagantly decorated houses, which everyone knew were built on drug money.

The extravagantly-coiffed cyclist had, however, shaved off his sideburns for today's ceremony in Buckingham Palace.

Tolstoy, to name one artist, managed to spin a decent yarn or two around the travails of the extravagantly wealthy.

She told me to dress as extravagantly as possible, in whatever designer clothes I own.

He told me that he was still extravagantly fond of whiskey, though he was constantly "running it down."

His extravagantly tall fluffy hat was so perched on the top of his head that it was a wonder it did not fall off more frequently.

One bookseller's shop, where books are extravagantly dear, exists in the low town, and one other in the ascent to the upper.

He was the image of Juana, who secretly petted him extravagantly, although she pretended to like her younger son the better.

She was a tall and handsome woman, with extravagantly marine clothes and much false hair.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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