lavishly

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I don't plan to retire lavishly after selling a hot start up for hundreds of millions of dollars.

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Quick take

in a wasteful manner; "the United States, up to the 1920s, used fuel lavishly, mainly because it was so cheap"

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adverb

in a wasteful manner; "the United States, up to the 1920s, used fuel lavishly, mainly because it was so cheap"

adverb

in a rich and lavish manner; "lavishly decorated"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for lavishly.

adverb

in a wasteful manner; "the United States, up to the 1920s, used fuel lavishly, mainly because it was so cheap"

adverb

in a rich and lavish manner; "lavishly decorated"

Example sentences

I don't plan to retire lavishly after selling a hot start up for hundreds of millions of dollars.

He is at least as good an example as this person of not living lavishly even with adequate money to do so.

I get my heckles up when I see people praising Bill Gates lavishly for the money he spend for health care, education et cetera.

Some folks would get meticulous and figure out how long they could make it cover their current expenses, some would spend it in lavishly stupid ways for cheap thrills.

It rewards people lavishly for bullshit work that doesn't really benefit our species much less the species we're busy exterminating through neglect.

The notion that defectors are lavishly rewarded -- a notion that Snowden encouraged in his comment about palaces and petting a phoenix -- is at odds with the historical record.

The author represents a socialist view of Canada that idealizes a period from '75 to '95 when federal parties spent lavishly on the social system funded via national debt.

While there are subtle but complex rules about social interaction, flirting, including making comments about good looks or of even sexual nature, most of all that used to be the norm, and generally well received and lavishly given, without the slightest hint of sexist nature.

America isn't bankrolling "stability for the world", its bankrolling stability where it suits the interest of American decision-makers, and instability where stability doesn't those interests.> The US is very interested in global stabilityExcept for those places where its interested in altering the status quo, in which cases it spends lavishly on doing that.> you can argue that's also in their own interests as well"Their own interests" -- that is, those of American decision-makers -- are the only factor, not an incidental "as well" factor, in the decision of where to bankroll stability and where to bankroll instability.