(n.) A wandering beyond proper limits; an excursion or sally from the usual way, course, or limit.
(n.) The state of being extravagant, wild, or prodigal beyond bounds of propriety or duty; want of moderation; excess; especially, undue expenditure of money; vaid and superfluous expense; prodigality; as, extravagance of anger, love, expression, imagination, demands.
Example Sentences:
(1) Such extravagant claims will be familiar to the scheme's architect, Richard Rogers, whose designs for the office development beside St Paul's Cathedral in the 1980s were torpedoed when Charles implied in a public speech that the plans were more offensive than the rubble left by the Luftwaffe during the blitz.
(2) I want to pick them by the armful and fill the house with their extravagance and glamour.
(3) While his more eminent predecessors, Gerald Durrell and John Aspinall, established that displaying wild creatures may occasionally be compatible with respect for them, zoos around the world have also sanitised – with extravagant claims about conservation, breeding programmes and species reintroduction – the essentially unchanged business of showing caged animals for cash.
(4) There is the rigorously landscaped swimming pool complex designed by a young (now disbanded) practice called Paisajes Emergentes, and the extravagantly roofed sports arena designed by Mazzanti, again, and Felipe Mesa.
(5) Apparently the sea wall is a favourite base for extravagant jumps into the water, but not at low tide.
(6) The author contrasts the creative urbane Goethe with the unempathic, self-absorbed, and extravagant Goethe.
(7) After years of on-and-off e-dating, in which I've met 150-200 women, fallen in love with one and invented extravagant excuses to extricate myself from awkward encounters with countless others, you might think I'd be tired of it all.
(8) He also sometimes falls, as in his account of Frederick Valk’s Othello, into extravagant hyperbole.
(9) The Candy brothers, the property duo behind the scheme, like to claim that the address sits at a sort of super-rich intersection – turn one way, and you look down Sloane Street, Europe's most extravagant shopping street.
(10) It will be Australian consumers who’ll pay extra to make sure that Tony Abbott can deliver this paid parental leave scheme which not only do I think is extravagant, I can tell you most of his own members seem to think is extravagant.” Abbott has been forced to defend his scheme multiple times since announcing the policy in 2010 and responded to reports in February the Commission of Audit had found it too expensive.
(11) I like a big, extravagant frock, but I wanted to feel like me.
(12) Mrs Tsvangirai was widely respected in Zimbabwe as the antithesis of President Robert Mugabe's extravagant and free-spending wife, Grace, who showed little concern for the plight of the many hungry and poor in her country.
(13) The booming Bollywood music beckoned a stream of families, wearing ornate saris and sharp kurtas, fragrant plates of samosa chaat in hand, toward the stage, replete with an extravagant display of lights and visuals.
(14) There is a small, but significant, increase in frequency during hypercapnia in vagotomized, anesthetized animals, indicating involvement of an extravagal mechanism in the response.
(15) She told Murdoch's biographer , Michael Wolff, that Murdoch was worried about the extravagance of buying a new yacht.
(16) Fleming was intrigued by Engelhard's extravagant lifestyle and when he wrote Goldfinger , published in 1959, he based its eponymous villain on him.
(17) Antony and Cleopatra is in many ways a reflection of Jacobean court extravagance and decadence.
(18) It would honour the record of CND and scrap Trident missiles, submarines, aircraft carriers, manned fighters and the extravagant paraphernalia of the arms lobby.
(19) Up close, even the supposedly most extravagant new BBC properties are less lavish than you might think.
(20) The temporal rearrangements of the respiratory cycle seem to be due to the vagal effects, while the extravagal influences, probably the reflexes from the stretch receptors of intercostal muscles, are responsible for changes of the volume component in the relations characterizing the mechanism of cessation of inspiration.
Profligacy
Definition:
(a.) The quality of state of being profligate; a profligate or very vicious course of life; a state of being abandoned in moral principle and in vice; dissoluteness.
Example Sentences:
(1) Orient, the League One leaders, dominated from the outset but paid for their profligacy in front of goal.
(2) His profligacy was punished five minutes later when Jay Rodriguez demonstrated how the sidefoot finish ought to be executed, tucking away Adam Lallana's squared pass from the right at the far post.
(3) Adam Lallana and Sterling squandered glorious chances to put the game beyond QPR in the second half and their profligacy was punished when Fer vollied Joey Barton’s corner down the centre of Mignolet’s goal.
(4) Reckless profligacy by Gordon Brown, say Tories; emergency measures to cushion the country from a global crisis, say Labour.
(5) Such is the inefficiency of its industry and the profligacy of its government that some industry experts expect it to run out of money next year.
(6) Anaemic government spending, not profligacy, has been a major factor behind the economy's lacklustre recovery.
(7) Ireland, which entered the financial crisis with one of Europe's lower debt-to-GDP ratios, is being reduced to beggary by the profligacy of its banks and the state's determination to shoulder the burden of supporting their impossible lending.
(8) And let's not forget the profligacy of imagination that underpins his science fiction.
(9) US universities are also fearfully expensive, consuming public and private resources with similar profligacy to US health services.
(10) Eager to soften her image as an austerity warmonger in the runup to the polls, the chancellor has gone on a charm offensive, speaking often of the pain she feels for the difficulty ordinary Greeks have had to endure as a result of their country's profligacy.
(11) The abundance of perks, benefits and bonuses that pushed profligacy to its limits was nurtured by runaway bureaucracy that gave way to loopholes and abuse.
(12) But Blackburn were punished for their profligacy 63 minutes in.
(13) Just as their patient approach is about to be praised, an equaliser in stoppage time switches all the focus to the perceived profligacy when they were dominant.
(14) Labour’s communication strategy remains woeful, and it lacks the means to develop a grand narrative that ties this all together, or a way of getting out of the “but you caused the last crisis through your profligacy” trap.
(15) Willian made amends for his team-mate’s profligacy soon enough.
(16) In 1774, one of Britain’s wealthiest traders was summoned to parliament to account for profligacy and corruption.
(17) Ordinary people are being forced to pay for the bankers' profligacy," he argues.
(18) The American right has demonstrated that again and again over a decades-long campaign to gain control of political institutions with the express aim of dramatizing the inefficiency, corruption, and profligacy of the very idea of government.
(19) The main thing that struck a chord was not the profligacy of supermarkets but the elegiac decay of the bagged salad: more than two-thirds of it thrown out, half by customers, half by stores.
(20) The corporation's critics immediately jumped on the claim as evidence of executive profligacy.