extravagantly

extravagant | American Dictionary

extravagant
adjective
us/ɪkˈstræv·ə·ɡənt/

extravagantadjective (EXPENSIVE)

more expensive than is necessary or reasonable, or having the characteristics of being expensive:
Company executives enjoyed an extravagant lifestyle.
Top athletes are showered with extravagant gifts.

extravagantadjective (UNREASONABLE)

beyond any reasonable expectation:
Parents who have extravagant hopes for their children are bound to be disappointed.

extravagant | Business English

extravagant
adjective
 disapprovinguk /ɪkˈstrævəɡənt/us
spending or costing a lot of money:
Severe cuts in public spending mean that demands for extravagant pay rises are no longer realistic.
an extravagant lifestyle
extravagant spending/expenditure
not based on facts and therefore not likely to be true:
an extravagant claim/promise

Examples of extravagant

extravagant
The familiar failures of leadership and examples of extravagant demagoguery are paraded.
However, adaptationists, and even optimality theorists, have made no such extravagant claims.
The lobby against effeminacy, dandyism, extravagant male attire and crossdressing became powerful and vocal by the late 1820s.
To offset this, it is possible that the extravagant endogamy may diminish.
After millennia of dead-ends and extravagant promises, we can now see our way to understanding the mechanisms of ageing.
Even more were shocked by the expense and the apparently extravagant ways of life from which there seemed to be no escape.
However, whilst it should be in the library, individuals might find that £50 for such a slim volume is rather extravagant.
Stories associated with the later, aristocratic tides are more extravagant.
The end of his reign was a more sober, less colourful time for the arts than his extravagant youth.
At his worst, his penchant for hunting, card playing, and drinking makes him appear "idle, dissipated, and extravagant" (119).
The extravagant ' ' adornment of the city, which all enjoy in equal degree ' ' overshadows the middle-class comfort of the home.
Should the design be warm or cool, dynamic or tranquil, restrained or extravagant, or any of the other meanings that colors can carry?
The defendant told the court that he and a friend had to raise money to pay for an extravagant lifestyle.
As the rebellion began to founder, he tried to maintain his role by increasingly extravagant promises of the successes his powers would secure.
The volume of work on the static-hole problem is so great that comparison with all other work would be a rather extravagant undertaking.
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