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Definition of Extravagantly

1. Adverb. In an abundant manner. "He thanked her profusely"

2. Adverb. In a wasteful manner. "The United States, up to the 1920s, used fuel lavishly, mainly because it was so cheap"

3. Adverb. In a rich and lavish manner. "Lavishly decorated"

Definition of Extravagantly

1. adv. In an extravagant manner; wildly; excessively; profusely.

Definition of Extravagantly

1. Adverb. With lavish expenditure or behaviour. ¹

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Definition of Extravagantly

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Extravagantly

extrathyroidal hypermetabolism extratidal extratracheal extratropical extratropics extratubal extraught extrauterine extrauterine gestation extravagance

extravagances extravagancies extravagancy extravagant extravagantly extravagantness extravaganza extravaganzas extravagate extravagated

extravagates extravagating extravagation extravagations extravagent extravasate extravasated

Literary usage of Extravagantly

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1861)
"... one of them beginning with “Transcendant genius,” &c., and the whole extravagantly complimentary. ..."

2. The History of Fiction: Being a Critical Account of the Most Celebrated by John Colin Dunlop (1816)
"Horrible incidents, when extravagantly employed by the novelist or dramatic poet, are merely an abuse of art, to which they are driven by indigence of ..."

3. The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England by John Campbell Campbell (1846)
"Extravagantly high opinion of himself created by Thurlow among his contemporaries. His birth. His family. converted; and Ex-chancellor Lord Rosslyn ..."

4. Library Notes by Addison Peale Russell (1875)
"Washington Irving completed that most extravagantly humorous of all his works — the History of New York — while he was suffering from the death of his ..."

5. Life on the Stage: My Personal Experiences and Recollections by Clara Morris (1901)
"... CHAPTER TWENTY-SECOND I Hear Mrs. Kean's Story of Wolsey's Robe — I Laugh at an Extravagantly Kind Prophecy. FROM the time I found the miniature and by ..."

6. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1803)
"Nothing would be wanting at this moment to complete the illusion, but one of those dreadful explosions of thunder and lightning, so extravagantly described ..."

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