extravagance

• And her extravagance was equal to her audacity. —  A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges
• His marriage was the signal for new extravagance, and he launched out more madly than ever he had done before; sending for fine singers or celebrated dancers from foreign countries to amuse him and his spouse; and instituting tilts and tournaments in his great court-yard almost every week for all the knights and nobles of the province of Brittany. —  Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
• If any one had an irreproachable excuse for extravagant living, it was I But even I, with the excuse, could not afford the extravagance--one weekly article did not pay for one cheap dinner for eight--at the Cabaret Lyonnais_. —  Nights Rome, Venice, in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris, in the Fighting Nineties
• And as the rest of the party were without the excuse and no better equipped for the extravagance, we never again gave each other dinners on the same lavish scale and rarely on any scale, henceforward ordering them on the principle of what Philadelphia in my youth called "a Jersey treat." —  Nights Rome, Venice, in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris, in the Fighting Nineties
• This dynasty again degenerated in course of time and came to an end in Chou, or Chou Hsin (1154-22 B.C.), a monster of lust, extravagance, and cruelty. —  The Sayings Of Confucius

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