Sumptuary used in a sentence

Sumptuary in a sentence as an adjective

"Subsidy" is a misnomer, think of it as a sumptuary tax or a fine.

There were actually laws, in many different times and places, know generally as "sumptuary laws".

Suits once denoted upper class, and sumptuary laws prevented lower classes from looking upper.

But also because enforcing the sumptuary laws displays power, which confers status, which enhances his power etc.

Except that it's not a continuation of sumptuary laws because there's a huge difference between a law and individual decisions people make.

What the French call “the caviar left,” la gauche caviar, or what Anglo-Saxons call champagne socialists, are people who advocate socialism, sometimes even communism, or some political system with sumptuary limitations, while overtly leading a lavish lifestyle, often financed by inheritance—not realizing the contradiction that they want others to avoid just such a lifestyle.