| NOUN | extravagance | extravagances | |
| SYNO | extravagance | extravagancy | high life | ... |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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Usage Examples English
- She was accused of extravagance, poor cooking skills, a desire to dominate her husband, and mental instability.
- The narrator provides the back-story of Nicanor's family, specifically how the father's extravagance almost ruined the family.
- Since 2012, Charles Kaisin has been working on a new concept of Surrealist Dinners. These combine extravagance, fine cuisine and renowned scenography.
- The Sunnah encourages moderation in eating, and strongly criticizes extravagance.
- Malawians have dubbed this as the Taj Mahal due to its high cost and extravagance.
- Just like the cars, Duesenberg instruments are also called "Doozy" or "Duesy", which had become a slang expression for extravagance and enthusiasm in past decades, originally associated with the automobiles.
- Later in the film a caption appears: "La raison de cette extravagance" (the reason for this extravagance).
- Van der Stel’s legacy is however stained by his apparent greed and extravagance. During his rule, Van der Stel was viewed as corrupt and dictatorial.
- The term is derived from the Italian word "stravaganza", meaning extravagance.
- His literary legacy is such that the word "Rabelaisian" designates something that is "marked by gross robust humor, extravagance of caricature, or bold naturalism".
- His rule was tarnished by scandal and financial extravagance. His ministers found his behaviour selfish, unreliable and irresponsible, and he was strongly influenced by favourites.
- He tried to avoid publicity and shunned extravagance, though he was reported to hold more than $70 million of the company's stock.
- Art nouveau extravagance began to evolve into Art Deco geometry after the First World War.
- The place demonstrates the principal characteristics of its class through the inclusion of substantial entertaining rooms, associated outbuildings and extravagance of design and materials.
- "maqāmāt", مقامات, literally "assemblies") are an (originally) Arabic prosimetric literary genre which alternates the Arabic rhymed prose known as "Saj‘" with intervals of poetry in which rhetorical extravagance is conspicuous.
- However, the pedlar turns out to be a rich long-lost relation (and husband of Grittly's sister) who wanted to give Frantz a lesson in the dangers of extravagance.
- At a time when the state was practically bankrupt, he encouraged the king in extravagance, and accumulated for himself a fortune estimated by contemporaries at forty-four million ducats.
- The "A" section is ornamented with increasing extravagance with each of its returns.
- His "only extravagance" is a Bentley.
- Marie Antoinette has been referenced in numerous motion pictures and television shows, usually as a figure to denote extravagance or doomed beauty.
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