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Extravagance   /ɛkstrˈævəgəns/   Listen
Extravagance

noun
1.
The quality of exceeding the appropriate limits of decorum or probability or truth.  Synonym: extravagancy.
2.
The trait of spending extravagantly.  Synonyms: prodigality, profligacy.
3.
Excessive spending.  Synonyms: high life, highlife, lavishness, prodigality.






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"Extravagance" Quotes from Famous Books



... tribes whose ordinary food consists of vegetables, the slaughter of cattle was at once a household feast and an act of worship: a pig was the most acceptable offering to the gods, just because it was the usual roast for a feast. But all extravagance of expense as well as all excess of rejoicing was inconsistent with the solid character of the Romans. Frugality in relation to the gods was one of the most prominent traits of the primitive Latin worship; and the free play of imagination was repressed with iron severity by the moral self-discipline ...
— The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) • Theodor Mommsen

... detected no extravagance in his homage, she was none the more pleased with it. It made her feel awkward and self-conscious. She set him down in her own mind as "too finicking," while his good looks did not happen to be of a type that appealed ...
— In Brief Authority • F. Anstey

... thing composed of three rosebuds, a bit of velvet, and a pair of strings, could possibly be a bonnet, and cost six dollars. That night he looked as if he would like the fun of quizzing her figures and pretending to be horrified at her extravagance, as he often did, being particularly proud of ...
— Little Women • Louisa May Alcott

... been told to us by some writer of romance, as the product of his own imagination, there is not a man among us who would not have condemned it as unnatural, improbable, a mere extravagance entirely out of keeping with the human character. And yet the thing has actually taken place; the work has been done, and well ...
— Celebration in Baltimore of the Triumph of Liberty in France • William Wirt

... and I wanted him to start with every advantage, to have a gentleman's education. At home he's seen nothing of extravagance and self-indulgence." ...
— The Web of Life • Robert Herrick


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