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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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Peter Stringer has occasionally been charged with a lack of extravagance behind the scrum, but his antennae are never down.
Gaius Petronius, the author of the Satyricon, was the emperor Nero's advisor in matters of luxury and extravagance.
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.
One of our neighbors, good old Deacon Winship, often animadverted upon the luxury and extravagance of the times.
It treads a delicate line between tasteful extravagance and over-the-top kitsch.
Many men lampooned her for her extravagance, but women, by contrast, envied her.

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