Synonym: exaggerated, excessive, extreme, grand, luxurious, overdone, unreasonable. Antonym: economical, frugal, thrifty. Similar words: ravage, extra, extract, extracting, extraneous, extradition, extraordinary, extraterrestrial. Meaning: [-nt] adj. 1. unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings 2. recklessly wasteful.
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61. He spent extravagant sums for blockbuster articles by and about celebrities, and launched a circulation war against Life and Look.
62. All kinds of extravagant promises were made during the election campaign.
63. He thought his witticisms were amusing but found her response too extravagant.
64. Industry heavyweights routinely spend millions of dollars on extravagant booths and lavish parties.
65. The popular image of Mrs Beeton as a middle-aged housewife given to the confection of extravagant recipes is doubly mistaken.
66. Hundreds, thousands, and not one of them with sufficient imagination to try a really extravagant swindle.
67. Traditional style cottages and villas set amongst extravagant gardens - secluded, private and relaxed.
68. Do you have any idea how extravagant that sister of mine is?
69. Viennese-born Stroheim never was the darling of the studios because he was so ruthlessly extravagant.
70. The whole cast muster in the market place before breaking into extravagant variations of the tarantella.
71. Alaia tops, Paul Smith suits, extravagant spectacles: the designers are an instantly recognisable breed.
72. An even more extravagant bouquet than usual lay waiting for her on the draining-board.
73. If anything, we were too extravagant in the late 1980s when money was rolling in - we took everything for granted.
74. But all these rather extravagant claims have had to be made via the old-fashioned printed page.
75. The Conservatives, on the other hand, protect the counties and suspect the great urban authorities of being extravagant.
76. This was a criticism not of Gothic design nor of church building but of extravagant expenditure.
77. In order to win an election, a party would make extravagant promises, doing so in order to outbid the other party.
78. With this extravagant behaviour, as the Encomiast says, went lavish gifts of precious objects.
79. On a world of higher gravity, the maneuver would have been far too extravagant of fuel.
80. She will make no extravagant claims for her skin- and hair-care products, all derived from natural ingredients.
81. The display in the shop window was an extravagant scenario designed to showcase a monster train set.
82. Extravagant claims have been made for some herbal remedies including the curing of baldness.
83. Naturally there is a lot of grandstanding and extravagant claims.
84. Bold blue cones surmount an extravagant collar of prickly blue bracts with filigree appendages.
85. Postwar politics made extravagant claims for its own power,[http://sentencedict.com/extravagant.html] and unsurprisingly failed to deliver.
86. On his desk lay scripts for the Easter Triduum, the three most profound and extravagant liturgical celebrations of the year.
87. The cane furniture, silver framed pictures, and extravagant, wall-mounted lighting seemed out of place in this shoddy high rise.
88. Catching Stella watching him he flashed her an extravagant smile.
89. Rich and extravagant parents are spending more and more money on their children's parties.
90. Even when in debt, he continued to enjoy an extravagant lifestyle.
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