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extravagant English

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extravagant

Using more of something than is needed, especially money, is to be extravagant. Don't be extravagant with money.

extravagant

(= exuberant, overweening) unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings extravagant praise exuberant compliments overweening ambition overweening greed (= prodigal) recklessly wasteful prodigal in their expenditures

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Simple sentences

This diamond ring is too extravagant for me.
Tom has an extravagant lifestyle.

Movie subtitles

You shouldn't have been so extravagant.
And she has a reputation of being one of the most extravagant girls in Paris as well as one of the most insincere.
We know he's extravagant.
Naturally, you can't be extravagant.
How extravagant, throwing away women like that.
I know it's foolish and extravagant but I've simply got to have it.
He has a very extravagant wife.
I was afraid you'd think I'd been a bit too extravagant.
Oh, all of us are extravagant now and then, don't you think?
It was wildly extravagant, I know, but having committed the crime. I suddenly felt reckless and gay.
It was very extravagant of you.
You're being extravagant.
Well, aren't you extravagant?
Colonel, I fully understand your natural pride in holding a position. Since it is the only position the British hold, I can understand the extravagant claims for it.
Oh, well, I didn't tell you before, Stephen. because I was afraid you might do something extravagant.
We haven't done anything very extravagant yet.
Since it is the only position the British hold, I can understand the extravagant claims for it.
That's so extravagant.
Isn't that extravagant?
There must be a less extravagant way of getting a chauffeur's daughter out of one's hair.
I don't want to seem extravagant.
Because I live in a big house it doesn't necessarily follow that I'm a rich man so there's no good coming here with extravagant ideas.
And without extravagant spending on your behalf.
You're too extravagant, Dad!
His words were extravagant with vague threats. regarding the forthcoming visit of a man. who was due between October 5th and 8th.
How extravagant you are, throwing away women.
She did say you were extravagant.
Suites are for expense accounts. You're being extravagant.
Aren't you being a little extravagant, brother?
Be gay extravagant, outrageous.
Take it easy. You're getting pretty extravagant.
You're very extravagant with your money.
Do what you want. But remember: being too extravagant isn't good.
Do you think I'm extravagant, mother?
It would be a better match for that extravagant kimono.

News and current affairs

Ochoa's sentence, apart from its extravagant cruelty, may ultimately cost taxpayers as much as a million dollars.
But whatever the eugenics movement's extravagant claims and social crimes, including the forced sterilization of thousands (mainly women) in Europe and the US, today it is supposed to be different.
Borrowers are lured into unsuitable mortgages; firms are stripped of their assets; accountants mislead investors; financial advisers spin narratives of riches from nowhere; and the media promote extravagant claims.
To fix the roof, we may have to accept a less extravagant summer vacation.
But I fear that change might cause a global economic crisis resulting from, say, an ugly unwinding of extravagant US borrowing trends.
Extravagant promises to behave better at some future point are not completely credible, although they often have a short-term impact.
But by that time, even the civilian chancellor had resolved on extravagant war aims that made hopes for a negotiated peace illusory.
Historically, fiscal profligacy tends to take hold at times like these, with windfall revenues wasted on extravagant public projects.
Putin's extravagant vanity has severely undermined the strongman image that he has spent the last 12 years building.
The French government, in this same spirit, has gone after public-sector workers' extravagant pension benefits, as well as the legal retirement age, trying to increase it from 62 to 65.
The country's undernourished masses are not being invited to the capital, Pyongyang, for the extravagant parades that will be held at enormous cost.
But this is an extravagant hypothesis, which goes far beyond the facts it is meant to explain.

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