Definition of extravagance in English:

extravagance

noun ɛkˈstravəɡ(ə)nsɪkˈstravəɡ(ə)nsɪkˈstrævəɡəns

mass noun

1Lack of restraint in spending money or using resources.
奢侈，铺张；浪费
his reckless extravagance with other people's money
他对别人钱财的大肆挥霍。
Example sentencesExamples
- Impulsiveness, impatience, senseless rebellion, and extravagance are the traits that so often undermine their work and dreams.
- The probe found vast waste, extravagance, and hoarding.
- We are going to end the culture of extravagance and waste, because New Zealanders have had enough.
- Yesterday the Environment Agency advised against extravagance with ‘a precious resource’ but stressed there was no serious cause for concern.
- The big unknown for hotels and restaurants that had factored corporate extravagance into their plans is how much spending will be reined in.
- I think extravagance is wasted on ourselves and should always be directed at other people.
- In reckless extravagance he outdid the prodigals of all times in ingenuity… and set before his guests loaves and meats of gold, declaring that a man ought either to be frugal or be Caesar.
- But the appearance of financial cronyism, allied to the vexed issue of government extravagance on failing computer systems, does not sit well with the chancellor's austere image.
- It was a classic left-wing promise, because we have seen more extravagance and more waste under this Government than I have ever seen in my lifetime.
- This is the harvest one reaps when one sows in extravagance and dissipation.
- He is, to this day, associated with extravagance and regal lavishness.
- During his lifetime, Fitzgerald's reputation for extravagance and dissipation affected assessments of his writings.
- While always treating James with deference, Cecil urged him to curtail his extravagance and also to restrain his partiality for Scots advisers and companions.
- It is not just a case of eliminating extravagance and waste, we have got to manage the budget and be even more efficient.
- For all its richness and extravagance, the hospital hotel lacked warmth.
- People surround their houses with frilly plants and especially with lawns - an astonishingly costly national extravagance.
- And extravagance and waste prevailing on campus has seldom, if at all, been addressed as a pressing issue.
- ‘The problems of formalism, bureaucracy, dishonesty, extravagance and waste are relatively severe,’ he told the legislature session.
- Peter Stringer has occasionally been charged with a lack of extravagance behind the scrum, but his antennae are never down.
- Even so, it has left me with a sense of unease about waste, especially in this industry where extravagance is so normal.
Synonyms
profligacy, lack of thrift, unthriftiness, thriftlessness, improvidence, wastefulness, waste, overspending, prodigality, squandering, lavishness
immoderation, excess, recklessness, lack of restraint, irresponsibility
spendthrift behaviour, free-spending ways
1. 1.1count noun A thing on which too much money has been spent or which has used up too many resources.
  奢侈品，奢华物
  salmon trout is an unnecessary extravagance
  鳟鱼是一种不必要的奢侈品。
  Example sentencesExamples
  When you feel that everyone at the office has noticed your miserly and cheap behavior, start to make them feel guilty about their own extravagances.
  One of the many extravagances of the Constitution was to convert a large number of workers such as university lecturers, scientific researchers and other technical officers into civil servants.
  For some, it could have been an impossible dream gathering dust in the corner of their minds, remembered fondly as one of the extravagances of childhood.
  Often, this extra spending is on luxuries and wasteful extravagances - small things that add up to thousands in the long run.
  The extravagances of his palaces have also been given an airing.
  People are traveling less, not spending money on extravagances and looking to be with their family all helps to support our business model.
  She redeemed her extravagances by their consequences.
  Smith refers to one of hedonistic King George's most legendary extravagances.
  The glamour, the hype, the fame, the extravagances, and, above all, the money - all of these combine to create a world many young boys wish to inhabit.
  We should mind little things - little courtesies in life, little matters of personal appearance, little extravagances, little minutes of wasted time, little details in our work.
  Mainly, these are harmless extravagances if the bank balance can cope.
  But given the abject poverty Miller grew up in, it's hard to fault him for his extravagances.
  Maybe that's why when we reach a certain age, we're supposed to confine such extravagances to birthdays, weddings and Christmas.
  The times of such architectural extravagances as turrets are passing.
  I'm lucky to have friends who have wonderful extravagances, so it's possible on a fine summer's day to be taken on a splendid motor launch to lunch at Beaulieu on the river.
  The schools barely have enough money for a fully equipped football team, and they certainly have no money for extravagances like bus yards.
  Until the very end he was famous for extravagances and spent millions on yachts, helicopters, planes and homes around the world, including an $11m apartment in New York whose furnishings are the source of his current tax problems.
  His extravagances are the horses they keep on a couple of acres in Surrey.
  Before I get lots of nasty letters about expat extravagances, I tell you now Bulgarians would embrace many of these business enterprises.
  Lottery money has to be sought, not for luxuries or extravagances, but to maintain parks and public areas.
  Synonyms
  luxury, indulgence, self-indulgence, comfort, treat, extra, non-essential, frill, refinement
2. 1.2 Excessive elaboration.
  the extravagance of the decor
  装饰的过于考究。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The degree of excess and extravagance seemed over the top in even the most subdued tiki bar.
  The lack of eastern extravagance promises good things.
  But to get back to the question of a gay sensibility: cliche has us believe that amongst its ingredients are flamboyance, showiness, excess and extravagance.
  They range from lovely, understated elegance and simplicity to wild extravagance.
  I got bored with extravagance, the time wasting and delaying, the speeches that were so horrendously long… it was enough to make any real person want to sleep for an eternity.
  Curtis sits in the director's chair for the first time and seems willing to commit to film his whole romantic scrapbook with sporting extravagance.
  The same could be said of my bedroom, which lacks the extravagance I would expect at these prices.
  They rely upon a language of ‘verbal extravagance and outrageousness’.
  Godwin and Mill both wrote with Burkean extravagance about Hastings's disastrous effect on English national character.
  When you shear it of all its pomp and extravagance, when you whittle it down to the very basics of musical comedy plotting, Half a Sixpence should work like a lucky charm.
  Easter (in March or April) is the most important religious holiday and is highly revered by the Russian Orthodox Church with elaborate rituals and extravagance.
  They seem to be giant physical manifestations of a kind of extravagance, or excessiveness, a breaking out of boundaries, form, and structure.
  Synonyms
  ornateness, elaborateness, decoration, embellishment, adornment, ornamentation, showiness
  overstatement, ostentation, exaggeration, over-elaborateness
  excessiveness, exaggeration, exaggeratedness, unreservedness, outrageousness, immoderation
  preposterousness, absurdity, irrationality, recklessness, wildness
  excess, overkill, lack of restraint/reserve

Derivatives

extravagancy

noun ɛkˈstravəɡ(ə)nsiɪkˈstravəɡ(ə)nsiɪkˈstrævəɡ(ə)nsi

It was only occasionally that she would experience their extravagancy and that was only when she was in the rare presence of her globetrotting father.
Example sentencesExamples
- Looking back at it, I realize clearly that in my circumstances this has been criminal extravagancy.
- They could not enjoy such extravagancies while their people were starving in their oil rich homeland.

Origin

Mid 17th century: from French, from medieval Latin extravagant- 'diverging greatly', from the verb extravagari (see extravagant).

Definition of extravagance in US English:

extravagance

nounɪkˈstrævəɡənsikˈstravəɡəns

1Lack of restraint in spending money or use of resources.
奢侈，铺张；浪费
his reckless extravagance with other people's money
他对别人钱财的大肆挥霍。
Example sentencesExamples
- He is, to this day, associated with extravagance and regal lavishness.
- During his lifetime, Fitzgerald's reputation for extravagance and dissipation affected assessments of his writings.
- In reckless extravagance he outdid the prodigals of all times in ingenuity… and set before his guests loaves and meats of gold, declaring that a man ought either to be frugal or be Caesar.
- The probe found vast waste, extravagance, and hoarding.
- And extravagance and waste prevailing on campus has seldom, if at all, been addressed as a pressing issue.
- It is not just a case of eliminating extravagance and waste, we have got to manage the budget and be even more efficient.
- Impulsiveness, impatience, senseless rebellion, and extravagance are the traits that so often undermine their work and dreams.
- This is the harvest one reaps when one sows in extravagance and dissipation.
- Yesterday the Environment Agency advised against extravagance with ‘a precious resource’ but stressed there was no serious cause for concern.
- It was a classic left-wing promise, because we have seen more extravagance and more waste under this Government than I have ever seen in my lifetime.
- While always treating James with deference, Cecil urged him to curtail his extravagance and also to restrain his partiality for Scots advisers and companions.
- The big unknown for hotels and restaurants that had factored corporate extravagance into their plans is how much spending will be reined in.
- People surround their houses with frilly plants and especially with lawns - an astonishingly costly national extravagance.
- I think extravagance is wasted on ourselves and should always be directed at other people.
- We are going to end the culture of extravagance and waste, because New Zealanders have had enough.
- Even so, it has left me with a sense of unease about waste, especially in this industry where extravagance is so normal.
- But the appearance of financial cronyism, allied to the vexed issue of government extravagance on failing computer systems, does not sit well with the chancellor's austere image.
- For all its richness and extravagance, the hospital hotel lacked warmth.
- ‘The problems of formalism, bureaucracy, dishonesty, extravagance and waste are relatively severe,’ he told the legislature session.
- Peter Stringer has occasionally been charged with a lack of extravagance behind the scrum, but his antennae are never down.
Synonyms
profligacy, lack of thrift, unthriftiness, thriftlessness, improvidence, wastefulness, waste, overspending, prodigality, squandering, lavishness
1. 1.1 A thing on which too much money has been spent or which has used up too many resources.
  奢侈品，奢华物
  salmon trout is an unnecessary extravagance
  鳟鱼是一种不必要的奢侈品。
  Example sentencesExamples
  For some, it could have been an impossible dream gathering dust in the corner of their minds, remembered fondly as one of the extravagances of childhood.
  But given the abject poverty Miller grew up in, it's hard to fault him for his extravagances.
  Often, this extra spending is on luxuries and wasteful extravagances - small things that add up to thousands in the long run.
  One of the many extravagances of the Constitution was to convert a large number of workers such as university lecturers, scientific researchers and other technical officers into civil servants.
  Smith refers to one of hedonistic King George's most legendary extravagances.
  Mainly, these are harmless extravagances if the bank balance can cope.
  The times of such architectural extravagances as turrets are passing.
  His extravagances are the horses they keep on a couple of acres in Surrey.
  She redeemed her extravagances by their consequences.
  Maybe that's why when we reach a certain age, we're supposed to confine such extravagances to birthdays, weddings and Christmas.
  The extravagances of his palaces have also been given an airing.
  Lottery money has to be sought, not for luxuries or extravagances, but to maintain parks and public areas.
  Before I get lots of nasty letters about expat extravagances, I tell you now Bulgarians would embrace many of these business enterprises.
  I'm lucky to have friends who have wonderful extravagances, so it's possible on a fine summer's day to be taken on a splendid motor launch to lunch at Beaulieu on the river.
  Until the very end he was famous for extravagances and spent millions on yachts, helicopters, planes and homes around the world, including an $11m apartment in New York whose furnishings are the source of his current tax problems.
  The schools barely have enough money for a fully equipped football team, and they certainly have no money for extravagances like bus yards.
  The glamour, the hype, the fame, the extravagances, and, above all, the money - all of these combine to create a world many young boys wish to inhabit.
  When you feel that everyone at the office has noticed your miserly and cheap behavior, start to make them feel guilty about their own extravagances.
  People are traveling less, not spending money on extravagances and looking to be with their family all helps to support our business model.
  We should mind little things - little courtesies in life, little matters of personal appearance, little extravagances, little minutes of wasted time, little details in our work.
  Synonyms
  luxury, indulgence, self-indulgence, comfort, treat, extra, non-essential, frill, refinement
2. 1.2 Excessive elaborateness of style, speech, or action.
  （风度、言谈或行为的）过于讲究；过度
  the extravagance of the decor
  装饰的过于考究。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The same could be said of my bedroom, which lacks the extravagance I would expect at these prices.
  They range from lovely, understated elegance and simplicity to wild extravagance.
  I got bored with extravagance, the time wasting and delaying, the speeches that were so horrendously long… it was enough to make any real person want to sleep for an eternity.
  Curtis sits in the director's chair for the first time and seems willing to commit to film his whole romantic scrapbook with sporting extravagance.
  They rely upon a language of ‘verbal extravagance and outrageousness’.
  Godwin and Mill both wrote with Burkean extravagance about Hastings's disastrous effect on English national character.
  But to get back to the question of a gay sensibility: cliche has us believe that amongst its ingredients are flamboyance, showiness, excess and extravagance.
  When you shear it of all its pomp and extravagance, when you whittle it down to the very basics of musical comedy plotting, Half a Sixpence should work like a lucky charm.
  They seem to be giant physical manifestations of a kind of extravagance, or excessiveness, a breaking out of boundaries, form, and structure.
  The lack of eastern extravagance promises good things.
  Easter (in March or April) is the most important religious holiday and is highly revered by the Russian Orthodox Church with elaborate rituals and extravagance.
  The degree of excess and extravagance seemed over the top in even the most subdued tiki bar.
  Synonyms
  ornateness, elaborateness, decoration, embellishment, adornment, ornamentation, showiness
  excessiveness, exaggeration, exaggeratedness, unreservedness, outrageousness, immoderation

Origin

Mid 17th century: from French, from medieval Latin extravagant- ‘diverging greatly’, from the verb extravagari (see extravagant).

词汇	extravagance
释义	Definition of extravagance in English: extravagance noun ɛkˈstravəɡ(ə)nsɪkˈstravəɡ(ə)nsɪkˈstrævəɡəns mass noun 1Lack of restraint in spending money or using resources. 奢侈，铺张；浪费 his reckless extravagance with other people's money 他对别人钱财的大肆挥霍。 Example sentencesExamples Impulsiveness, impatience, senseless rebellion, and extravagance are the traits that so often undermine their work and dreams. The probe found vast waste, extravagance, and hoarding. We are going to end the culture of extravagance and waste, because New Zealanders have had enough. Yesterday the Environment Agency advised against extravagance with ‘a precious resource’ but stressed there was no serious cause for concern. The big unknown for hotels and restaurants that had factored corporate extravagance into their plans is how much spending will be reined in. I think extravagance is wasted on ourselves and should always be directed at other people. In reckless extravagance he outdid the prodigals of all times in ingenuity… and set before his guests loaves and meats of gold, declaring that a man ought either to be frugal or be Caesar. But the appearance of financial cronyism, allied to the vexed issue of government extravagance on failing computer systems, does not sit well with the chancellor's austere image. It was a classic left-wing promise, because we have seen more extravagance and more waste under this Government than I have ever seen in my lifetime. This is the harvest one reaps when one sows in extravagance and dissipation. He is, to this day, associated with extravagance and regal lavishness. During his lifetime, Fitzgerald's reputation for extravagance and dissipation affected assessments of his writings. While always treating James with deference, Cecil urged him to curtail his extravagance and also to restrain his partiality for Scots advisers and companions. It is not just a case of eliminating extravagance and waste, we have got to manage the budget and be even more efficient. For all its richness and extravagance, the hospital hotel lacked warmth. People surround their houses with frilly plants and especially with lawns - an astonishingly costly national extravagance. And extravagance and waste prevailing on campus has seldom, if at all, been addressed as a pressing issue. ‘The problems of formalism, bureaucracy, dishonesty, extravagance and waste are relatively severe,’ he told the legislature session. Peter Stringer has occasionally been charged with a lack of extravagance behind the scrum, but his antennae are never down. Even so, it has left me with a sense of unease about waste, especially in this industry where extravagance is so normal. Synonyms profligacy, lack of thrift, unthriftiness, thriftlessness, improvidence, wastefulness, waste, overspending, prodigality, squandering, lavishness immoderation, excess, recklessness, lack of restraint, irresponsibility spendthrift behaviour, free-spending ways 1.1count noun A thing on which too much money has been spent or which has used up too many resources. 奢侈品，奢华物 salmon trout is an unnecessary extravagance 鳟鱼是一种不必要的奢侈品。 Example sentencesExamples When you feel that everyone at the office has noticed your miserly and cheap behavior, start to make them feel guilty about their own extravagances. One of the many extravagances of the Constitution was to convert a large number of workers such as university lecturers, scientific researchers and other technical officers into civil servants. For some, it could have been an impossible dream gathering dust in the corner of their minds, remembered fondly as one of the extravagances of childhood. Often, this extra spending is on luxuries and wasteful extravagances - small things that add up to thousands in the long run. The extravagances of his palaces have also been given an airing. People are traveling less, not spending money on extravagances and looking to be with their family all helps to support our business model. She redeemed her extravagances by their consequences. Smith refers to one of hedonistic King George's most legendary extravagances. The glamour, the hype, the fame, the extravagances, and, above all, the money - all of these combine to create a world many young boys wish to inhabit. We should mind little things - little courtesies in life, little matters of personal appearance, little extravagances, little minutes of wasted time, little details in our work. Mainly, these are harmless extravagances if the bank balance can cope. But given the abject poverty Miller grew up in, it's hard to fault him for his extravagances. Maybe that's why when we reach a certain age, we're supposed to confine such extravagances to birthdays, weddings and Christmas. The times of such architectural extravagances as turrets are passing. I'm lucky to have friends who have wonderful extravagances, so it's possible on a fine summer's day to be taken on a splendid motor launch to lunch at Beaulieu on the river. The schools barely have enough money for a fully equipped football team, and they certainly have no money for extravagances like bus yards. Until the very end he was famous for extravagances and spent millions on yachts, helicopters, planes and homes around the world, including an $11m apartment in New York whose furnishings are the source of his current tax problems. His extravagances are the horses they keep on a couple of acres in Surrey. Before I get lots of nasty letters about expat extravagances, I tell you now Bulgarians would embrace many of these business enterprises. Lottery money has to be sought, not for luxuries or extravagances, but to maintain parks and public areas. Synonyms luxury, indulgence, self-indulgence, comfort, treat, extra, non-essential, frill, refinement 1.2 Excessive elaboration. the extravagance of the decor 装饰的过于考究。 Example sentencesExamples The degree of excess and extravagance seemed over the top in even the most subdued tiki bar. The lack of eastern extravagance promises good things. But to get back to the question of a gay sensibility: cliche has us believe that amongst its ingredients are flamboyance, showiness, excess and extravagance. They range from lovely, understated elegance and simplicity to wild extravagance. I got bored with extravagance, the time wasting and delaying, the speeches that were so horrendously long… it was enough to make any real person want to sleep for an eternity. Curtis sits in the director's chair for the first time and seems willing to commit to film his whole romantic scrapbook with sporting extravagance. The same could be said of my bedroom, which lacks the extravagance I would expect at these prices. They rely upon a language of ‘verbal extravagance and outrageousness’. Godwin and Mill both wrote with Burkean extravagance about Hastings's disastrous effect on English national character. When you shear it of all its pomp and extravagance, when you whittle it down to the very basics of musical comedy plotting, Half a Sixpence should work like a lucky charm. Easter (in March or April) is the most important religious holiday and is highly revered by the Russian Orthodox Church with elaborate rituals and extravagance. They seem to be giant physical manifestations of a kind of extravagance, or excessiveness, a breaking out of boundaries, form, and structure. Synonyms ornateness, elaborateness, decoration, embellishment, adornment, ornamentation, showiness overstatement, ostentation, exaggeration, over-elaborateness excessiveness, exaggeration, exaggeratedness, unreservedness, outrageousness, immoderation preposterousness, absurdity, irrationality, recklessness, wildness excess, overkill, lack of restraint/reserve Derivatives extravagancy noun ɛkˈstravəɡ(ə)nsiɪkˈstravəɡ(ə)nsiɪkˈstrævəɡ(ə)nsi It was only occasionally that she would experience their extravagancy and that was only when she was in the rare presence of her globetrotting father. Example sentencesExamples Looking back at it, I realize clearly that in my circumstances this has been criminal extravagancy. They could not enjoy such extravagancies while their people were starving in their oil rich homeland. Origin Mid 17th century: from French, from medieval Latin extravagant- 'diverging greatly', from the verb extravagari (see extravagant). Definition of extravagance in US English: extravagance nounɪkˈstrævəɡənsikˈstravəɡəns 1Lack of restraint in spending money or use of resources. 奢侈，铺张；浪费 his reckless extravagance with other people's money 他对别人钱财的大肆挥霍。 Example sentencesExamples He is, to this day, associated with extravagance and regal lavishness. During his lifetime, Fitzgerald's reputation for extravagance and dissipation affected assessments of his writings. In reckless extravagance he outdid the prodigals of all times in ingenuity… and set before his guests loaves and meats of gold, declaring that a man ought either to be frugal or be Caesar. The probe found vast waste, extravagance, and hoarding. And extravagance and waste prevailing on campus has seldom, if at all, been addressed as a pressing issue. It is not just a case of eliminating extravagance and waste, we have got to manage the budget and be even more efficient. Impulsiveness, impatience, senseless rebellion, and extravagance are the traits that so often undermine their work and dreams. This is the harvest one reaps when one sows in extravagance and dissipation. Yesterday the Environment Agency advised against extravagance with ‘a precious resource’ but stressed there was no serious cause for concern. It was a classic left-wing promise, because we have seen more extravagance and more waste under this Government than I have ever seen in my lifetime. While always treating James with deference, Cecil urged him to curtail his extravagance and also to restrain his partiality for Scots advisers and companions. The big unknown for hotels and restaurants that had factored corporate extravagance into their plans is how much spending will be reined in. People surround their houses with frilly plants and especially with lawns - an astonishingly costly national extravagance. I think extravagance is wasted on ourselves and should always be directed at other people. We are going to end the culture of extravagance and waste, because New Zealanders have had enough. Even so, it has left me with a sense of unease about waste, especially in this industry where extravagance is so normal. But the appearance of financial cronyism, allied to the vexed issue of government extravagance on failing computer systems, does not sit well with the chancellor's austere image. For all its richness and extravagance, the hospital hotel lacked warmth. ‘The problems of formalism, bureaucracy, dishonesty, extravagance and waste are relatively severe,’ he told the legislature session. Peter Stringer has occasionally been charged with a lack of extravagance behind the scrum, but his antennae are never down. Synonyms profligacy, lack of thrift, unthriftiness, thriftlessness, improvidence, wastefulness, waste, overspending, prodigality, squandering, lavishness 1.1 A thing on which too much money has been spent or which has used up too many resources. 奢侈品，奢华物 salmon trout is an unnecessary extravagance 鳟鱼是一种不必要的奢侈品。 Example sentencesExamples For some, it could have been an impossible dream gathering dust in the corner of their minds, remembered fondly as one of the extravagances of childhood. But given the abject poverty Miller grew up in, it's hard to fault him for his extravagances. Often, this extra spending is on luxuries and wasteful extravagances - small things that add up to thousands in the long run. One of the many extravagances of the Constitution was to convert a large number of workers such as university lecturers, scientific researchers and other technical officers into civil servants. Smith refers to one of hedonistic King George's most legendary extravagances. Mainly, these are harmless extravagances if the bank balance can cope. The times of such architectural extravagances as turrets are passing. His extravagances are the horses they keep on a couple of acres in Surrey. She redeemed her extravagances by their consequences. Maybe that's why when we reach a certain age, we're supposed to confine such extravagances to birthdays, weddings and Christmas. The extravagances of his palaces have also been given an airing. Lottery money has to be sought, not for luxuries or extravagances, but to maintain parks and public areas. Before I get lots of nasty letters about expat extravagances, I tell you now Bulgarians would embrace many of these business enterprises. I'm lucky to have friends who have wonderful extravagances, so it's possible on a fine summer's day to be taken on a splendid motor launch to lunch at Beaulieu on the river. Until the very end he was famous for extravagances and spent millions on yachts, helicopters, planes and homes around the world, including an $11m apartment in New York whose furnishings are the source of his current tax problems. The schools barely have enough money for a fully equipped football team, and they certainly have no money for extravagances like bus yards. The glamour, the hype, the fame, the extravagances, and, above all, the money - all of these combine to create a world many young boys wish to inhabit. When you feel that everyone at the office has noticed your miserly and cheap behavior, start to make them feel guilty about their own extravagances. People are traveling less, not spending money on extravagances and looking to be with their family all helps to support our business model. We should mind little things - little courtesies in life, little matters of personal appearance, little extravagances, little minutes of wasted time, little details in our work. Synonyms luxury, indulgence, self-indulgence, comfort, treat, extra, non-essential, frill, refinement 1.2 Excessive elaborateness of style, speech, or action. （风度、言谈或行为的）过于讲究；过度 the extravagance of the decor 装饰的过于考究。 Example sentencesExamples The same could be said of my bedroom, which lacks the extravagance I would expect at these prices. They range from lovely, understated elegance and simplicity to wild extravagance. I got bored with extravagance, the time wasting and delaying, the speeches that were so horrendously long… it was enough to make any real person want to sleep for an eternity. Curtis sits in the director's chair for the first time and seems willing to commit to film his whole romantic scrapbook with sporting extravagance. They rely upon a language of ‘verbal extravagance and outrageousness’. Godwin and Mill both wrote with Burkean extravagance about Hastings's disastrous effect on English national character. But to get back to the question of a gay sensibility: cliche has us believe that amongst its ingredients are flamboyance, showiness, excess and extravagance. When you shear it of all its pomp and extravagance, when you whittle it down to the very basics of musical comedy plotting, Half a Sixpence should work like a lucky charm. They seem to be giant physical manifestations of a kind of extravagance, or excessiveness, a breaking out of boundaries, form, and structure. The lack of eastern extravagance promises good things. Easter (in March or April) is the most important religious holiday and is highly revered by the Russian Orthodox Church with elaborate rituals and extravagance. The degree of excess and extravagance seemed over the top in even the most subdued tiki bar. Synonyms ornateness, elaborateness, decoration, embellishment, adornment, ornamentation, showiness excessiveness, exaggeration, exaggeratedness, unreservedness, outrageousness, immoderation Origin Mid 17th century: from French, from medieval Latin extravagant- ‘diverging greatly’, from the verb extravagari (see extravagant).
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