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lavish

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1. lavish - Noun

2. lavish - Adjective

3. lavish - Verb

4. lavish - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Expending or bestowing profusely; profuse; prodigal; as, lavish of money; lavish of praise.

Superabundant; excessive; as, lavish spirits.

To expend or bestow with profusion; to use with prodigality; to squander; as, to lavish money or praise.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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A liar is always lavish of oaths. Pierre Corneille

Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday... The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production. Ayn Rand

The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish use of superlatives, that no standard of value whatever is intact. Wyndham Lewis

We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might. Mignon McLaughlin

There is no price set on the lavish summer, And June may be had by the poorest comer. James Russell Lowell

They limit their expenditure where it is not needed, and are ever lavish of that of which they should be sparing. Latin Proverb

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