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What does extravagance mean?

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Noun
  1. Excessive or superfluous expenditure of money.
  2. Prodigality, as of anger, love, expression, imagination, or demands.
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It treads a delicate line between tasteful extravagance and over-the-top kitsch.
By his late twenties, Disraeli's sartorial and social extravagance had left him deep in debt.
One of our neighbors, good old Deacon Winship, often animadverted upon the luxury and extravagance of the times.
He lived a life of extravagance and lecherousness, and had engaged in all sorts of evil conduct.
Gaius Petronius, the author of the Satyricon, was the emperor Nero's advisor in matters of luxury and extravagance.
For a prime minister who fought the election on improving public services, such increases look like thoughtless and tactless extravagance.

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