| Many men lampooned her for her extravagance, but women, by contrast, envied her. |
| Gaius Petronius, the author of the Satyricon, was the emperor Nero's advisor in matters of luxury and extravagance. |
| Peter Stringer has occasionally been charged with a lack of extravagance behind the scrum, but his antennae are never down. |
| For a prime minister who fought the election on improving public services, such increases look like thoughtless and tactless extravagance. |
| By his late twenties, Disraeli's sartorial and social extravagance had left him deep in debt. |
| The extravagance of the court and the high cost of war absorbed all of France's resources and efforts to rationalize the tax system failed. |
