Lavish is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for LAVISH in dictionary:

VERB:
• to give generously
• bestow something in generous or extravagant quantities on
• give someone generous amounts of
• To expend or bestow with profusion; to use with prodigality; to squander; as, to lavish money or praise.
• expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns
• give or spend generously
ADJECTIVE:
• generous or profuse in giving
• sumptuously rich, elaborate, or luxurious
• (of a person) very generous or extravagant
• spent or given in profusion
• Expending or bestowing profusely; profuse; prodigal; as, lavish of money; lavish of praise.
• Superabundant; excessive; as, lavish spirits.
• characterized by extravagance and profusion
• prolific
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• expending or giving in great amounts
• to expend or give in great amounts

Words related to LAVISH

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Words that contain LAVISH

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How to use LAVISH in a sentence

• Most people are lavish with words, as most people are lavish with money.
• Dorothea knew, of course, that Frenchmen were lavish of compliments, and had heard General Rochambeau pay them where she felt sure they were not deserved.
• The almost incredible variety of plants, and the lavish profusion of their growth, produce an effect perfectly enchanting.
• More notoriety has been given to an instance of lavish liberality at Venice, than the case deserved, though it was unquestionably prompted by a charitable impulse.
• You must devise some torment worse, my lord, To make these captives rein their lavish tongues.
• For one thing my lavish hospitality had exhausted my pocket-money in the first three weeks, and I was ashamed to write home for more so soon.
• He can lavish a hundred dollars on Andy, but he has no money to give his own son.
• Seldom, outside the pages of French fiction, had there been so lavish and public a display of mistresses.
• In all this lavish loveliness of English wild flowers there is, indeed, a peculiar tenderness.
• In 1363 he returned to his English prison, where he died in 1364, surrounded with every courtesy and attention that Edward could lavish upon him.
• Dudevant spent with a lavish hand upon his farm, but bestowed little attention upon his wife.
• Before he could escape, they paused for a few moments near the outer branches of the great birch, where the lavish moon beamed clear as noonday.
• In spite of enormous efforts and lavish expenditure of money by the enemy, little valuable information passed into their hands.
• The old knight smiled gravely, thanked the bearer of the message, and rewarded him with lavish hand.
• Scotch, and accepted their lavish bid to sit with them awhile.
• There are ribbons, shoes, gloves, all in lavish abundance.
• You lavish the wealth of your soul and spirit, the treasures of your time, the noblest efforts of your will, upon a crowd of people who repay you in smiles and jealousy.
• Hortense now possessed an object upon which she could lavish the whole wealth of love that had until now lain concealed in her heart.
• Lavish expenditure such as theirs begins to be felt when the luck changes, and the chevalier soon had to call his genius to aid him in maintaining his honourable reputation.
• He would like to be in society and dispense a lavish hospitality, but he cannot speak the language of the drawing room.
• His domestic existence had always been conducted on the same moderately lavish scale.
• The rare richness and lavish beauty of the Wellington mausoleum are only surpassed by a certain tomb in France.
• Even his extraordinary liberality is accounted for, by those who do not care to follow his example, by saying that it is mere vanity, or lavish imprudence.
• Even before the marriage was concluded she had distressed herself by her lavish expenditure at Streatham.
• Undoubtedly the most characteristic thing about the past is that it is not present, and to lavish on it too tragic and intense a devotion is to love death more than life.

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