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UK
/ɛkstɹˈævəɡəntli/
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[ US /ˌɛkˈstɹævəɡəntɫi/ ]
[ US /ˌɛkˈstɹævəɡəntɫi/ ]
ADVERB
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in an abundant manner
he thanked her profusely
they were abundantly supplied with food -
in a wasteful manner
the United States, up to the 1920s, used fuel lavishly, mainly because it was so cheap -
in a rich and lavish manner
lavishly decorated
How To Use extravagantly In A Sentence
- Extravagantly showy and ostentatious work is pretentious when the merit it demands is unjustified.
- Set to Rossini's titular score, it chivvies and inspires its dancers to delicious extremes of virtuosity, extravagantly sustained poses, scintillating footwork and wicked speeds. This week's new dance
- But NAF self-consciously did use the word "commons", indeed so extravagantly that it was repeated more than 200 times in this brief 21 page document, twice as many times, interestingly, as they used the word "military". The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
- Many parish churches were extravagantly rebuilt, and lavished with vessels and ornaments which foreign visitors thought worthy of a cathedral.
- I doubt I have ever read a novel with so many extravagantly nonsensical similes and rococo metaphors.
- He crossbred visual panache and hedonistic flair, notably in "Sign of the Cross" (1932), with a lesbian dance sequence, a lithe Claudette Colbert bathing in milk, and Charles Laughton playing an extravagantly gay Nero. Review of "Empire of Dreams," Scott Eyman's biography of Cecil B. DeMille
- They combined apricots, raisins and almonds in meat dishes, which were extravagantly embellished with cream and thin sheets or beaten gold and silver foil.
- Often extravagantly expensive, they are about the size of a hockey puck and just as dense.
- Granada, in the heart of their great conquest; and it is a most beautiful church, of a mingled Saracenic plateresque Gothic, as the guide-books remind me, and extravagantly baroque as I myself found it. Familiar Spanish Travels
- The antinomic procedure was extravagantly devel - oped by Fichte and Hegel, Hegel complaining that ANTINOMY OF PURE REASON