lavish
Example Sentences
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Dubai has in recent years become a hive of influencers, entrepreneurs and millionaires, enticed by the business-friendly and income tax-free city and the lavish lifestyles on offer.
From Barron's
The lavish presents - all clearly marked with designer labels - piled up and decorated like a Christmas tree, the expensive trips to five-star resorts around the world, the extravagant wedding parties that closed roads to traffic.
From BBC
Treinen went on to say that teams don’t necessarily need to be lavish spenders in order to compete, pointing to how the Milwaukee Brewers posted baseball’s best record a season ago, with the 22nd-highest payroll.
From Los Angeles Times
No matter which city he was in, Elisha sent lavish gifts for Maggie, addressed to Mother Fox, “I could not resist the temptation of sending the accompanying little trifle of ermine, for Miss Margaretta’s throat.”
From Literature
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In a March 2019 email included in the Justice Department documents, Trivers—who by then had left Rutgers—listed the tens of thousands of dollars Epstein had lavished on him over the years.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.