The Collaborative International Dictionary
Extravagantly \Ex*trav"a*gant*ly\, adv. In an extravagant manner; wildly; excessively; profusely.
Wiktionary
adv. With lavish expenditure or behaviour.
WordNet
adv. in an abundant manner; "they were abundantly supplied with food"; "he thanked her profusely" [syn: abundantly, copiously, profusely]
in a wasteful manner; "the United States, up to the 1920s, used fuel lavishly, mainly because it was so cheap" [syn: lavishly]
in a rich and lavish manner; "lavishly decorated" [syn: lavishly, richly]
Usage examples of "extravagantly".
The number and quality of the articles exported from France were extravagantly exaggerated.
Augereau, who, like all uneducated men, went to extremes in everything, had published under his name a proclamation extravagantly violent and even insulting to the Emperor.
His very proneness to be gulled by strangers and to pay extravagantly for absurdities is excused under the plea of munificence, for John is always more generous than wise.
Omnius discussed a painting, an extravagantly imaginative mountain landscape.
I am willing to pay as extravagantly as yourself for the gratification of a whim.
I sometimes thought that she insisted on this partly because she could not forget the existence of the Queen of Scots, who, common sense told her, was more beautiful than she could ever be even with all her false hair, her chalk and rouge and extravagantly glittering garments.
Tachitas praised her extravagantly when the song came to its conclusion.
Mrs Clarence was in bed in a large room with a huge bay window draped extravagantly in brocade, a thick carpet underfoot and some massive dark furniture.
Had il gran signore Mantissa blundered so extravagantly as to be arrested?
Niches held bowls and vases of Sea Folk porcelain, thin as leaves and worth many times their weight in gold, or massive, gem-studded figures, a golden leopard with ruby eyes trying to pull down a silver deer with pearl-covered antlers that stood a pace tall, a golden lion that was even taller, with emerald eyes and firedrops for claws, others set so extravagantly with gems that no metal showed.
I could with less pain endure the raging in my own natural unsatisfied appetites, even hunger or thirst, than I could submit to leave ungratified the most whimsical desires of a woman on whom I so extravagantly doated, that, though I knew she had been the mistress of half my acquaintance, I firmly intended to marry her.
He lauded almost extravagantly my nether extremities, my swelling calves in silk hose drawn up to the limit, and eulogised glowingly my other hidden treasures in priceless lace which, he said, he could conjure up.
Gifford, the old Puritans, who felt and asserted, however extravagantly, that there was an eternal law which was above all Borgias and Machiavels, Stuarts and Fletchers, have surely a right to a fair trial.
The seizure and trial of a group of British and Indian agitators at Meerut, and the extravagantly heavy sentences passed upon them in 1933, showed both the gravity of these fears and the unintelligent clumsiness with which the situation was being met.
They mined the dense jumble of his Paduan notes and prepared neat sheets of paper, written extravagantly on one side only, for his review and revision.