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[ adverb ] in a wasteful manner

Synonyms

extravagantly

Examples

"the United States, up to the 1920s, used fuel lavishly, mainly because it was so cheap"

Used in print

(The Christian Science Monitor,...)

The drama itself - and this seems to be lavishly true of Biblical drama - often has hardly any relationship with authenticity at_all .

(Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land....)

They went downstairs , loaded a tray lavishly .

2
[ adverb ] in a rich and lavish manner

Examples

"lavishly decorated"

Related terms

rich lavish rich lavish

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