Definitions

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  • adjective Lavish to excess.

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  • adjective Excessively lavish; decadent.

Etymologies

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over- +‎ lavish

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Examples

  • Janet is a dear soul and very nicelooking; tall, but not over-tall; stoutish, yet with a certain restraint of outline suggestive of a thrifty soul who is not going to be overlavish even in the matter of avoirdupois.

    Anne of the Island 1908

  • "I am not suitor to the Lady Isabel; Clarence is overlavish, and Isabel has a fair face and a queenly dowry."

    The Last of the Barons — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • "I am not suitor to the Lady Isabel; Clarence is overlavish, and

    The Last of the Barons — Volume 03 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

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