Synonyms for extravagance
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : ik-strav-uh-guhns |
Phonetic Transcription : ɪkˈstræv ə gəns |
Top 10 synonyms for extravagance Other synonyms for the word extravagance
Définition of extravagance
Origin :- 1640s, from French extravagance, from Late Latin extravagantem (see extravagant). Specifically of wasteful spending from 1727. Extravagancy is attested from c.1600.
- noun indulgence; waste
- Jeffersonian simplicity is preached; extravagance is practised.
- Extract from : « 'Tis Sixty Years Since » by Charles Francis Adams
- Burlesque, farce and extravagance of situation and dialogue.
- Extract from : « The Dramatic Values in Plautus » by Wilton Wallace Blancke
- There are worse faults to be laid to his account than lechery and extravagance.
- Extract from : « The Man Shakespeare » by Frank Harris
- She was plain; she was simple; but it was the costly simplicity of extravagance.
- Extract from : « Her Father's Daughter » by Gene Stratton-Porter
- The extravagance of some of the early Quakers has been grossly exaggerated.
- Extract from : « The Works of Whittier, Volume VI (of VII) » by John Greenleaf Whittier
- I will not submit to be ruined by the extravagance and profligacy of any man.
- Extract from : « The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby » by Charles Dickens
- But he had gone from extravagance to extravagance, from outrage to outrage.
- Extract from : « The Coryston Family » by Mrs. Humphry Ward
- Play and horses, and general recklessness and extravagance, but no wine and no women.
- Extract from : « The First Violin » by Jessie Fothergill
- In fact, John was a little depressed by this extravagance of light hearts.
- Extract from : « A Singer from the Sea » by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
- There is no extravagance which has not been resorted to by the authors of those biographies.
- Extract from : « Roman Catholicism in Spain » by Anonymous
Antonyms for extravagance
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