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Lavish   /lˈævɪʃ/   Listen
Lavish

adjective
1.
Very generous.  Synonyms: munificent, overgenerous, too-generous, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting.  "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"
2.
Characterized by extravagance and profusion.  Synonyms: lucullan, lush, plush, plushy.  "A lucullan feast"
verb
(past & past part. lavished; pres. part. lavishing)
1.
Expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns.  Synonym: shower.



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"Lavish" Quotes from Famous Books



... intervening weald grow daily more dear and intimate, and appeal more and more closely to the deepest secrets of sweetness and delight. For as we train ourselves to the perception of beauty, we become more and more alive to a fine simplicity of effect; we find the lavish accumulation of rich and magnificent glories ...
— Joyous Gard • Arthur Christopher Benson

... afflict her? That was what she was thinking, but at the same time she blamed herself for repining, and, in order to banish the thought, she rose, and, going over to her husband, laid her hand gently on his shoulder, courting a caress. He had been lavish enough of caresses at first, but all that was over now, and he finished the paragraph he was reading before he noticed Edith at all. Then he glanced at her, but his eyes ...
— The Heavenly Twins • Madame Sarah Grand

... encampment. As a matter of fact, it was an enormous feast that was served to them, of buffalo steak, beaver tail, prairie chicken, stewed berries, and great quantities of rich new milk, with all the other luxuries that the attentive Crows could lavish upon them. ...
— Kiddie the Scout • Robert Leighton

... knights, and heard in thought Their lavish comment when her name was named. For once, when Arthur walking all alone, Vext at a rumour issued from herself Of some corruption crept among his knights, Had met her, Vivien, being greeted fair, Would fain have wrought upon his cloudy mood With reverent eyes mock-loyal, shaken voice, And fluttered ...
— Idylls of the King • Alfred, Lord Tennyson

... "pinch" anywhere or run herself into the dreaded "debt," she went to work with a will; and the stall-keepers down at Lexington Market fairly opened their eyes at the orders she gave with such a lavish hand. ...
— Divided Skates • Evelyn Raymond


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