extravagance
/ɪkˈstɹævəɡən(t)s/ noun C1- Excessive or superfluous expenditure of money.
- Prodigality, as of anger, love, expression, imagination, or demands.
- Something extravagant; something done out of extravagance. · That luxury car is an extravagance you can't afford.
Plural extravagances
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It is crushing the nut with the triphammer—an absurd extravagance of energy—but the nut is very effectually crushed all the same.”
I made her three good, warm, serviceable ones this fall, and anything more is sheer extravagance.
Darcy chose to doubt it--or to treat it as a merely conditional recommendation, and to assert that I had forfeited all claim to it by extravagance, imprudence, in short, anything or nothing.
My father supported him at school, and afterwards at Cambridge; most important assistance, as his own father, always poor from the extravagance of his wife, would have been unable to give him a gentleman’s education.
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