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lavishly

/lav-ish/US // ˈlæv ɪʃ //UK // (ˈlævɪʃ) //

慷慨地,奢华地,奢侈地,挥霍无度

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : expended, bestowed, or occurring in profusion: lavish spending.
    • : using or giving in great amounts; prodigal: lavish of his time; lavish of affection.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to expend or give in great amounts or without limit: to lavish gifts on a person.

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Examples

  • Beijing has lavished subsidies on home-grown chipmakers—mostly to no avail.

  • On the eve of their daughter Cecily’s lavish wedding, a handyman named Stefan Codrescu bludgeoned a guest named Frank Parris to death.

  • News of the absent King’s lavish lifestyle provided an unwelcome contrast to the suffering of his subjects­­—not least of all because Vajiralongkorn’s life of luxury is increasingly seen to come at the taxpayer’s expense.

  • The day before the vote, she offered an amendment to make the legislation, which lavished tax cuts on corporations and the wealthy, more equitable.

  • A wealthy executive testifying from a lavish vacation home in Hawaii could send the wrong message.

  • In addition, he had made prudent investments and, except for his wine cellar, did not live lavishly.

  • Wedged between two marble buildings at the lavishly designed Lincoln Center, sits a single white tent.

  • He rests lavishly, depicted in a marble sarcophagus that stares up for eternity at the carved depictions of his life story.

  • Leather bonnets that marked the early 19th century gave way to styled hair and lavishly veiled hats of the 20th century.

  • The group also spent lavishly on some of its high-ranking executives.

  • Then she put her anger from her; put from her, too, the insolence and scorn with which so lavishly she had addressed him hitherto.

  • In the courts of princes and wealthy natives the vessels and tubes are lavishly adorned with precious metals.

  • Anciently, indeed, what had been lavishly given was not seldom violently taken away.

  • In Castile was ostentatiously displayed and lavishly spent great fortunes made in remote provinces by oppression and corruption.

  • It did not occur to Caleb Landor that this was because he had given to the boy lavishly of everything except himself.