(a.) Profuse in expenditure; prodigal; wasteful; as, an extravagant man.
(n.) One who is confined to no general rule.
(n.) Certain constitutions or decretal epistles, not at first included with others, but subsequently made a part of the canon law.
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.
Swashbuckler
Definition:
(n.) A bully or braggadocio; a swaggering, boastful fellow; a swaggerer.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fantastic Beasts, which is set 70 years prior to the arrival of Potter and his pals at the magical Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, will feature the swashbuckling adventurer Newt Scamander.
(2) Only Chelsea are above Brendan Rodgers' swashbuckling side in the Premier League table now.
(3) Eliot Spitzer, who as the swashbuckling New York state attorney general unearthed the stock ramping of the dotcom bubble, was elected governor of New York in January 2007 but lasted less than 18 months after he was linked to a prostitution ring and forced to quit.
(4) On a recent Tuesday morning, as schoolchildren careered through the villa's sun-splashed corridors, one girl quietly contemplated a photograph of a swashbuckling pirate wearing a raffia tricorne .
(5) It was hard to know what to expect from United: would we see the swashbuckling side that stormed past Olympiakos on Wednesday night to reach the last eight of the Champions League or the one that was embarrassed by Liverpool?
(6) Photograph: Allstar One, two, swashbuckle my shoe: history's bow tie spins in horror as 15th-century polymath is recast as wisecrackin' action hunk.
(7) The film begins in 2008, and follows the WikiLeaks founder's ascent from underground hacktivist to international terrorist, in the eyes of Washington, or swashbuckling cyberhero to his admirers.
(8) The appearance of Ballesteros on that list is especially pertinent, given the swashbuckling style which links him and Mickelson.
(9) Peacock was a swashbuckling centre-forward when he was on Bristol City’s books as a schoolboy, until he was 14.
(10) Avatar 2, 3 and 4 will also feature returning stars Sam Worthington, as disabled soldier turned swashbuckling Na'avi rebel Jake Sully, and Zoe Saldana as his alien paramour Neytiri.
(11) It is not the most obvious of roles for Bean, now 58, who built a name for himself as a swashbuckler and sword-swinger, famous mostly for his many glorious on-screen deaths .
(12) He’s the Bundesliga’s most successful foreign goal-scorer (176 goals before the start of the season), he looks like a swashbuckling 1950s film star and his signing promised nothing less than a return to the good old times, when Werder weren’t serial relegation contenders but taking on Europe’s heavyweights in the Champions League.
(13) Swashbuckling victories over Croatia caught the eye, but Terry's most admirable display came in leading a youthful team to victory in Berlin.
(14) Predictably, Cardinale and Rochefort had worked together before – in a 1962 swashbuckler called Cartouche, also starring Jean-Paul Belmondo .
(15) Barely 12 months later, the Shell lifer has turned into a swashbuckling corporate acquirer, agreeing to take over BG in one of the biggest deals ever seen in the energy sector.
(16) The Algerian, Spanish and even Germans fans in Gijón were disgusted by what they witnessed and waved white hankies and so on to protest,” says Chaabane Merzekane, a full-back whose swashbuckling performance in toppling the Germans earned him the man-of-the-match award.
(17) He was seen as a back-to-basics operator by the City who loved Browne's swashbuckling style until the share price began to suffer after the Texas City fire, a pipeline spill in Alaska and a propylene trading scandal.
(18) Their eye-pleasing, swashbuckling style has served them well on the domestic front over the past two seasons, but not so well in Europe.
(19) A similar swashbuckling spirit – and, perhaps, Ferdinand's presence on the coaching staff – was one of the factors that attracted Pienaar to Spurs.
(20) It took barely 10 minutes for a room full of sombre shareholders to deliver the last rites yesterday to Bear Stearns , the 85-year-old Wall Street brokerage once feared for its swashbuckling, high-risk culture of aggression.