Very generous. Synonyms:munificent, overgenerous, too-generous, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting."The critics were lavish in their praise" , "A munificent gift" , "His father gave him a half-dollar and his mother a quarter and he thought them munificent" , "Prodigal praise" , "Unsparing generosity" , "His unstinted devotion" , "Called for unstinting aid to Britain"
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Characterized by extravagance and profusion. Synonyms:lucullan, lush, plush, plushy."A lucullan feast"
verb
(past & past part. lavished; pres. part. lavishing)
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Expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns. Synonym:shower.
... she had refrained, at her most doting moments, from lifting him up to the lowest step in the ladder of aristocratic preferment. But although her favour towards Raleigh had this singular limit, and although she kept him rigidly outside the pale of politics, in other respects her affection had been lavish in the extreme. Without ceasing to hold Hatton and Leicester captive, she had now for five years given Raleigh the chief place in her heart. But, in May 1587, we suddenly find him in danger of being dethroned in favour of a boy of twenty, and ... — Raleigh • Edmund Gosse Read full book for free!
... which shot up like a flame. I thought of the graceful American elms in front of Longfellow's house and the sturdy English elms that stand in front of Lowell's. In this garden of England, the Isle of Wight, where everything grows with such a lavish extravagance of greenness that it seems as if it must bankrupt the soil before autumn, I felt as if weary eyes and overtasked brains might reach their happiest haven of rest. We all remember Shenstone's epigram on the pane of a tavern window. If we find our "warmest welcome at an ... — The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist) Read full book for free!
... February 5th. Lavish Love upon our equals, where it is very difficult, and for whom perhaps we each do least of all. The ... — Beautiful Thoughts • Henry Drummond Read full book for free!
... dear," she said, softly, a peculiar resolve coming into her heart. The world was wide. There was comfort and ease in it scattered by others with a lavish hand. Surely, surely misfortune could not press so sharply but ... — Jennie Gerhardt - A Novel • Theodore Dreiser Read full book for free!
... copper mines are among the best in the world. Iron and coal also abound. Building materials, of beauty and strength, adapted to form cottages for the poor or palaces for the rich, are not wanting. Nature has here furnished in lavish profusion everything necessary for converting the wilderness into smiling fields, studded ... — American Scenes, and Christian Slavery - A Recent Tour of Four Thousand Miles in the United States • Ebenezer Davies Read full book for free!
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