Lavish

(verb.) expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns; 'He was showered with praise'.

(adj.) very generous; 'distributed gifts with a lavish hand'; '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' .

(adj.) characterized by extravagance and profusion; 'a lavish buffet'; 'a lucullan feast' .

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• He is intent upon various new expenses,--horses, and carriages, and lavish appearances of all kinds. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• And mostly in difficulties, yet mostly lavish, too, in the expensive articles of print and paper. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• He spent great sums and incurred heavy debts to provide public festivals on the most lavish scale. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• He had been enriching his medical attendant in the most lavish manner. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Well, then, Master George Osborne had every comfort and luxury that a wealthy and lavish old grandfather thought fit to provide. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Money was spent with almost lavish freedom. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Where I took her into this wretched breast when it was first bleeding from its stabs, and where I have lavished years of tenderness upon her! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• I might excite your passions; but then, such contempt as you have lavished on poor Lady Caroline Lamb would kill me. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• On those she lavished, almost ironically, her affection and her companionship. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Upon her he had lavished, unknown to himself, all the reverence and respect and love that a normal English boy feels for his own mother. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• The people idolized him; princes lavished uncounted treasures upon him. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• He never wasted a moment of time, or lavished a farthing of money in folly or dissipation. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• If anyone had known the care lavished on that dolly, I think it would have touched their hearts, even while they laughed. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• The Sultan has been lavishing money like water in England and Paris, but his subjects are suffering for it now. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.

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