Crossword clues for lavishness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lavishness \Lav"ish*ness\, n. The quality or state of being lavish.
Wiktionary
n. The state or characteristic of being lavish.
WordNet
n. the quality possessed by something that is excessively expensive [syn: luxury, sumptuosity, sumptuousness]
excessive spending [syn: extravagance, prodigality, highlife, high life]
Usage examples of "lavishness".
Further, he brought fruits and vegetables with the same lavishness as at Tahaa.
Century is, then, of such a character that it allows the average man to take his place in a world of superabundance, of which he perceives only the lavishness of the means at his disposal, nothing of the pains involved.
Carefully and comprehensively, he covered every aspect and detail of the situation with a calorific lavishness of imagery that would have warmed the cockles of a sergeant-major's heart.
With mixed crews, recruited from every nation, they scoured the seas, disappearing occasionally to careen in some lonely inlet, or putting in for a debauch at some outlying port, where they dazzled the inhabitants by their lavishness, and horrified them by their brutalities.
She put in the bath plug, turned the taps on, and poured in scented bath oil with the same lavishness that she had employed with the whisky bottle.
Ishido passed over the veiled sneer about ronin, the masterless, almost outcast mercenary samurai who had, in their thousands, flocked to the Heir's banner when Ishido had whispered it abroad that he, on behalf of the Heir and the mother of the Heir, would accept their fidelity, would incredibly - forgive and forget their indiscretions or past, and would, in the course of time, repay their loyalty with a Taikd's lavishness.