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Lavishly

Lavishly \Lav"ish*ly\, adv. In a lavish manner.

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lavishly

adv. In a lavish manner, expending profusely.

WordNet
lavishly
  1. adv. in a wasteful manner; "the United States, up to the 1920s, used fuel lavishly, mainly because it was so cheap" [syn: extravagantly]

  2. in a rich and lavish manner; "lavishly decorated" [syn: richly, extravagantly]

Usage examples of "lavishly".

I had long known the stupefying effect of bugloss, and old Wyrd had once told me that ragwort will make a horse go mad, so I used them both, and lavishly.

No doubt she did not like to thou me, but the expression of her eyes and the tone of her voice were much better than the to which is often used lavishly at Naples.

And you may be sure the sons of the harpy give lavishly to every passing khal, just as the magisters do in Pentos and Norvos and Myr.

The walls were hung with gold albums and old yellowing pub-shots of Brooke and his band, all rhinestones and platform heels, their flying hair lavishly backlit with klieg lights.

Her hand fluttered up to her throat as she crossed the black and white checkerboard tiles into a parlor where candles flickered, and red lilies speared lavishly out of glass vases.

Via Mozza, he found Mini entertaining a lavishly gowned emissary from the Duke of Ferrara.

Still reigns and triumphs, as he hath triumphed and reigned Since in the dim blue dawn of time The universal ebb-and-flow began, To sound his ancient music, and prevails, By the persuasion of his mighty rhyme, Here in this radiant and immortal street Lavishly and omnipotently as ever In the open hills, the undissembling dales, The laughing-places of the juvenile earth.

The top, carved from a single piece of lavishly grained mahogany, had a graceful, piecrust scalloped edge.

Sekhmet had never attempted to attack anybody, but had been fascinated by the smell of the aniseed which had been sprinkled lavishly on the trousers.

His soft motions grew longer, deeper, more lavishly beguiling, until she was damp and helpless, no longer struggling against the demands of his lower body, but needing to dissolve into him.

He had served it lavishly with his fortune during his diplomatic career, and the later story of his captivity and barbarous ill-usage under Guzman Bento was well known to his listeners.

One after another she turned up to him the faces of the yellow, bursten flowers appealingly, fondling them lavishly all the while.

That was the fish that all the combines were after, and it was the reason we would all overspend lavishly on this phase.

No monkish sparsity of furniture here these rooms were lavishly furnished and decorated.

For Sperr Lansing was now praising this Summers man lavishly to his face.