extravagancy
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The Chinese regard the West's failure to make use of excrement as "extreme extravagancy," says Wittwer.
From Time Magazine Archive
No, 'sooth, sir; my determinate voyage is mere extravagancy.
From Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Pantagruel one day, to refresh himself of his study, went a-walking towards St. Marcel's suburbs, to see the extravagancy of the Gobeline building, and to taste of their spiced bread.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2 by Peter Anthony Motteux
Wherefore, they, looking upon what the captains did to be, as they called it, a fruit of the extravagancy of their wild and foolish fancies, rather despised them than feared them.'
From Bunyan by James Anthony Froude
I had thought all such extravagancy perished with the Launcelot and Palomides of your book.
From Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes by James Branch Cabell
Long gone are the extravagancies of Granit Xhaka, in exchange for a far more acceptable and even-tempered Rice, who is a far better footballer anyway.
From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2024
But Venus Observed is modern, sophisticated, drawing-room bred, .and its ironies, at times, stare down its extravagancies as arrant trespassers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Such extravagancies cannot but detract from scientific validity.
From Time Magazine Archive
And to entertain an audience perpetually with humour, is to carry them from the conversation of gentlemen, and treat them with the follies and extravagancies of Bedlam.
From Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love by John Dryden
There is an unfairness and misrepresentation about them which is significant of how the poet's poses and extravagancies had prejudiced the public mind.
From Oscar Wilde by Leonard Cresswell Ingleby
