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Meaning lavish meaning

What does lavish mean?
Definitions in simple English

lavish Adjective

— If something is lavish it is large in quantity and is expensive.

lavish Verb

— To give out extremely generously; to squander. They lavished money on the dinner. They lavished him with praise.

lavish

— adjective (= munificent, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting) very generous distributed gifts with a lavish hand the critics were lavish in their praise a munificent gift his father gave him a half-dollar and his mother a quarter and he thought them munificent prodigal praise unsparing generosity his unstinted devotion called for unstinting aid to Britain — verb (= shower) expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns He was showered with praise — adjective (= lucullan) characterized by extravagance and profusion a lavish buffet a lucullan feast

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lavish English » English

extravagant luxurious generous sumptuous squander prodigal wasteful waste profuse abundant spendthrift rich plentiful munificent dissipate shower overgenerous open-handed unstinted unsparing profligate openhanded liberal bountiful wealthy unstinting too-generous scatter plushy plush ostentatious opulent lush lucullan free-handed extravagance expensive effusive waste of money void very extravagant vent utter unrestrained unleash ungrudging transmit too generous too broad-minded thriftless

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Conjugation lavish conjugation

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Simple sentences

The real estate broker was lavish in his spending in Ginza.

Movie subtitles

It's lavish, but I call it home.
I never could make enough to satisfy my lavish tastes so I let other people work for it, and I enjoy it.
The lavish manner in which you spent the money. will determine the years of your imprisonment.
Nothing lavish, you understand, but adequate.
I have enough stashed away to give you a lavish life.
I'd buy you something very lavish.
I'm going to take a shower and shave and take you to a lavish lunch.
I intend on being lavish.
At midnight, when the cheque was presented, I planned to sign it, add a lavish if purely imaginary tip, and then as the fireworks were exploding in the black velvet sky, to hurl myself from the top of this grotesque edifice.
On February 15th 1937, von Sternberg walked onto the set and began to shoot the epic that he called his biggest, most lavish picture.
Now, don't expect anything lavish in the way of decor.
And lavish entertainment was offered to them. Including dancing girls and other delights of forbidden fruits.
Norway, in terrible numbers assisted by this traitor, the Thane of Cawdor began a dismal conflict till Bellona's bridegroom, Macbeth confronts the king arm against arm, curbing his lavish spirit.
But who can I lavish it on, who wants it?
Mister, my girl has been paying you a lavish of attention and I don't like it.
I just wish Cartier's were open. I'd buy you something very lavish.
My ladies, this evening I wish you to lavish your affections upon my friend, the hunchback.
Given her lavish presents. Racked my brain to contrive Ways to put her at my pleasance.
He offers lavish presents to the army while our pharaoh lacks the funds to pay the Libyan troops, when they return from the Assyrian frontier.
I am leaving because we have a king who taxes the rich beyond its means and steals land from the poor to maintain his lavish court and his Catholic wife.
Therefore, we must lavish our affection on the progeny of others.
Well. I sometimes feel that the very way we do things is on too lavish a scale.
Now, you must lavish her with flowers, champagne. a sensible diamond. Ah!
I'll see to it that you both have a lavish funeral.
Being so lavish with money this early!
They're lavish with life, because they don't know its value.
You mean lavish, my pet.
A lavish party, it's my turn next month.
What a lavish feast, Bernardone.
I am leaving, sir, because we have a king who taxes the rich beyond its means and steals land from the poor to maintain his lavish court and his Catholic wife.
I have decided to withdraw into myself entirely, to concentrate all my energies on the education of my two children. As for god's great gift of a third child, i will lavish it with all my motherly love.
He is lavish with his hospitality.
Its lavish crystal adornments still reflect the glittering pride they felt in their accomplishments and their prosperity.

News and current affairs

His son's expensive lifestyle as a student at Oxford and Harvard has been described in lavish detail in the press.
Insiders enjoy lavish protections, while entry barriers to the millions left outside are insurmountable.
Even if his tastes were more lavish, he would be hard-pressed to spend more than a tiny fraction of his wealth.
In short, if the world's rich are stingy today toward our much richer descendants, and if we want to leave our environmental mess to them to deal with, we should be lavish toward the world's poor.
Likewise, if we are stingy today toward the world's poor, we should be lavish toward our descendents.
But lavish subsidies today simply enable an expensive, inconvenient, and often environmentally deficient technology.
Investors, who viewed Greenspan as a warm security blanket, now lavish him with fat six-figure speaking fees.
Moreover, since Hamas's rise to power, Fatah's challenge to the new Palestinian rulers was enhanced by lavish financial support it secured from the United States and Europe, and by a generous supply of weapons from both the US and Arab countries.
These asset bubbles were inflated by lax lending standards and an excessive willingness to borrow, which seemed similar to the Greek government's willingness to take on debt to pay lavish pensions.
Europe's policy is to abolish extreme inequality and poverty by lavish unemployment compensation that puts a floor under the willingness of people to accept poor jobs.
Lavish praise for this stream of expatriate FDI, however, misses its deep flaws.
And, given the current rage for all things Bollywood in France, a lavish Indian wedding would be fitting.
Indeed, the media shower lavish attention on over-claimers while neglecting their humbler colleagues.
He recently signed a lavish infrastructure bill that included, among other payoffs to political supporters, an infamous bridge to nowhere in Alaska.
Maybe the collapse stems from lousy internal controls in financial firms that, swaddled by implicit government guarantees, lavish their employees with enormous rewards for risky behavior.
Moreover, unlike other luxury-loving Latin American leaders, Cuban officials do not flaunt lavish lifestyles.
Her ascent has been marked by a heavy emphasis on symbolism - her rule in Uttar Pradesh has featured the construction of numerous statues of Dalit leaders, notably herself - and a taste for lavish celebrations.
Israel rebuffed US President Barack Obama's peace initiatives, and even refused to extend a freeze on settlement construction for a mere three months, despite a lavish offer of strategic compensation.

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