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• The countesses’ husbands were generally quite lavish.From the entry -'
• There will also be a huge churn of players after the lavish, unrewarding outlay this season.2023 April 18, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea Champions League exit: Where do 'disjointed, broken' Blues go from here?”, in BBC Sport. From the entry churn
• The Maga base rewards them with money and the media lavishes them with airtime.2023 October 7, Edward Luce, “The unending Republican revolution”, in FT Weekend, London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6. From the entry barnburner
• And with every passing game, Liverpool's lavish pay-out looks money well spent.2018 November 3, Phil McNulty, “Arsenal 1 - 1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport. From the entry pay-out
• Then, out of the blue, your empty-handedness is met by a lavish gift.2013, Karen J. Pine, Simonne Gnessen, Sheconomics, →ISBN. From the entry empty-handedness
• Every evening was hosted by a different balebos and there was a lavish feast.2008, Joseph Margoshes, “Reb Vovtshi's Kloyz”, in A World Apart: A Memoir of Jewish Life in Nineteenth Century Galicia, →ISBN, page 51. From the entry balebos
• Melissa got her wish to have a lavish living space for Bailey, an 11-year-old German shorthaired pointer.2007 September 9, The Associated Press, “Baker Keeps Building for the Future”, in New York Times. From the entry shorthaired
• My selfe, that am so broad-mouthed and lavish in speeches, am notwithstanding naturally touched with that bashfulnesse., Folio Society, 2006, p.17. From the entry broad-mouthed
• Or in the Midwest, where adaptive reuse has driven lavish restorations of big stations in St.2001 April 18, Ross Atkin, “Back on track”, in Christian Science Monitor. From the entry science center
• It was a lavish, fully draped, fully sofaed, fully radiator-covered nineteenth-century deluxe German hotel suite.1981, David A. Kaufelt, The Wine and the Music, page 331. From the entry sofa
• She was lavish in build, with great thighs but a slim waist, bathycolpous as any Homeric heroine.1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 255. From the entry bathycolpous
• Spring is the season of Nature's most lavish output—why not the publisher's also?1912 February, Lutie E[ugenia] Stearns, “The Books of 1911”, in Wisconsin Library Bulletin, volume 8, number 1, Madison, Wis.: Issued by…. From the entry paean
• There were lavish dinners with boldface names at Mr.2025 July 19, Alan Feuer, Matthew Goldstein, “Inside the Long Friendship Between Trump and Epstein”, in The New York Times, New York…. From the entry boldface
• Other Americans and Europeans also made their way into court, drawn by its brilliant pageants and lavish lū‘au, or feasts.2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom, Grove Press, published 2012, page 13. From the entry luau
• The gleam of Manhattan's moneyscapes – the lavish fundraising banquets, the mansions, the clothes – have an Arabian Nights allure.2010 September 23, Peter Rainer, “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps: movie review”, in The Christian Science Monitor. From the entry moneyscape
• Danny Boyle's critical darling 'Slumdog Millionaire' has made a killing at the box office and is now being lavished with awards.2009 January 17, Tom Huddleston, “What's all the fuss about 'Slumdog Millionaire'?”, in Time. From the entry make a killing
• For all the attention that America's most important critics lavished on “Tolstoevsky,” Slavic experts were all but ignored.2009, David C. Engerman, Know Your Enemy: The Rise and Fall of America's Soviet Experts, page 150. From the entry Tolstoevsky
• Bill Clinton lavished attention on California during his presidency, forging friendships with (unstodgy) movie stars, moguls and high-tech billionaires.2008 February 5, Adam Cohen, “Will the Capital of Change Choose Change or Experience?”, in New York Times. From the entry unstodgy
• Muradia, on whom she lavishes agentlike services.2000 July 16, Elaine S. Silver, “PERSONAL BUSINESS; Agents? Call Them Career Customizers”, in The New York Times, archived from the…. From the entry agentlike
• Cigarheads even have a new magazine, a lavish, glossy two-pound package of pride and puffery called Cigar Aficionado.1996 November, J. E. Lighter, “Blowing Smoke”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN, archived from the original on 12 Sep 2015. From the entry puffery
• They will lavish you with flowers, with compliments, with phials of Hungary water and methuselahs of the costliest champagne.1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, pages 9–10. From the entry heart
• He was given a lavish funeral, published (left) with a titlepage filled with an interesting display of musical instruments.1991, H[oward] C[handler] Robbins Landon, John Julius Norwich, Five Centuries of Music in Venice, Thames and Hudson, →ISBN, pages 41 and 89. From the entry titlepage
• Char-brown on the outside and pink in the middle, lavished with a wine-kissed sauce, flank is the steakiest steak there is!1976, Barbara Gibbons, The Slim Gourmet Cookbook, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 59. From the entry steaky
• Perhaps it was a Scotsman who, in response to an idea for lavish expenditure, first said "Money doesn't grow on trees".1943, William Budington Duryee, Farming for security, page 187. From the entry money doesn't grow on trees
• She makes herself appear stupid, lacking in tact and in reverse when she is too lavish with her conversation.1906 January 7, Kate Masterson, “When Silence is Golden”, in Cleveland Plain Dealer, 65th year, number 7, Cleveland, Oh., →OCLC, Woman’s…. From the entry overloquacity
• He stood with his sketchbook in front of the case of perciform fishes, lavishing attention on the turn and taper of every rib.2021, Richard Powers, Bewilderment, Hutchinson Heinemann, page 211. From the entry perciform
• When their lavish fiestas ended they threw the silver service and even golden vessels from their balconies to be picked up by lucky passersby.1997, Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent, Monthly Review Press, page 36. From the entry service
• Parties given by the flamboyant rancher from Texas had been more crowded, more informal, more unpredictable, more lavish in the buffet, and more kissingly cordial.1993, Betty Beale, Power at Play, page 165. From the entry kissingly
• The extensive menu has some interesting new additions, such as Fiesta chalupas: a lavish combination of sour cream and guacamole on a large tostado.1979 August, “Dallas”, in Texas Monthly, volume 7, number 8, page 36. From the entry tostado
• Aside from the nut heads, the finest of Esther Nusser's workmanship is lavished on her Grandma and Grandpa Dried Apple Head Dolls.1965, Larry Freeman, The American Life Collectors' Annual - Volume 5. From the entry nut head
• Although the small percentage of women who opt for Islamic dress is growing, a far greater proportion of Bakuvian ladies favour lavish make-up and toweing stilettoes over flapping chadors.2017, Lonely Planet, The Cities Book. From the entry Bakuvian
• In another case, a young woman, a smooth-talking, parasitic psychopath, constantly complained to her friends that her parents were not contributing enough to her already lavish lifestyle.2011, Robert D. Hare, Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us, →ISBN. From the entry smooth-talking
• The wardrobe mistress from Wicked showed the kids where the nooks and crannies are hidden in the show's lavish costumes to allow the leading ladies to hang from ropes.2008 May 16, Lina Lofaro, “Grade School Impresarios”, in Time. From the entry wardrobe mistress
• He had two beautiful daughters who fell in love with men he approved of and he wanted to give them the most lavish double wedding he could concoct.2005, Jean Ferris, Into the Wind: Part One, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 161. From the entry concoct
• Erna had dragooned a reluctant Frau Ostlinger into cohostessing a lavish party at the consulate for the children of all the more prominent German-American families in New York.1979, Robert H. Pilpel, To the honor of the fleet, page 241. From the entry cohostess

Meaning of lavish

1. adjective Expending or bestowing profusely; profuse; prodigal.
2. adjective Superabundant; excessive.
3. adjective Unrestrained, impetuous.

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How do you use lavish in a sentence?

Lavish is used as an adjective, verb and noun. For example: “They lavished money on the dinner.”

What is a short sentence with lavish?

“They lavished him with praise.”

What does lavish mean?

Lavish means expending or bestowing profusely; profuse; prodigal.