Synonyms:
extravagance, prodigality, profligacy
Meaning: the trait of spending extravagantly
Synonyms:
extravagance, extravagancy
Meaning: the quality of exceeding the appropriate limits of decorum or probability or truth; "we were surprised by the extravagance of his description"
Usage examples
Devoid of hysteria and extravagance
I'm ashamed of your extravagance, J. P."
Hence, tedious complaints about my extravagance.
Extravagance after a certain point becomes amusing.
Is it doubtful that this would lead to extravagance, if not to corruption?
Leslie's eyes danced with her dimples as Julia Cloud appealed to her to stop this extravagance.
Impulsively, I started toward him to remonstrate against the extravagance, but stopped as I heard the patter of rain against the windows.
Sir, this is a monstrous and hideous extravagance, a delusion, but, after all, no more than a trick of the imagination; the reason, the judgment, is untouched.
Nor had Tifto and his own extravagance caused the Duke any incurable wounds. If Tregear could be got out of the way, his father, he thought, might be reconciled to other things.
His hands were busy with his garments all this time: turning them inside out, putting them on upside down, tearing them, mislaying them, making them parties to every kind of extravagance.