What's the difference between generous and lavish?

Generous


Definition:

  • (a.) Of honorable birth or origin; highborn.
  • (a.) Exhibiting those qualities which are popularly reregarded as belonging to high birth; noble; honorable; magnanimous; spirited; courageous.
  • (a.) Open-handed; free to give; not close or niggardly; munificent; as, a generous friend or father.
  • (a.) Characterized by generosity; abundant; overflowing; as, a generous table.
  • (a.) Full of spirit or strength; stimulating; exalting; as, generous wine.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Swedes tend to see generous shared parental leave as good for the economy, since it prevents the nation's investment in women's education and expertise from going to waste.
  • (2) As Kuwait is one of the countries where the total consumption of antibiotics is very high as compared to most of the western countries, we are inclined to assume that this generous policy for the prescription of especially ampicillin and other broad spectrum antibiotics in uncomplicated infections has generated this serious consequence.
  • (3) Insertion of the material after careful tailoring to the individual patient's own mandibular size and configuration requires a generous posterior lower buccal sulcus incision.
  • (4) Ed Miliband's education package is less generous than some hoped Read more The Labour leader said the coalition is directly to blame for a trebling in the number of classes with more than 30 pupils from 31,265 in 2010 to 93,345 in 2014, as a result of opening free schools in areas where new schools are not needed.
  • (5) Even if you're being generous, Wood's vision of an alternative can feel like a utopian work in progress.
  • (6) People who knew him told Guardian Australia he was generous to the core, even if in desperate need for help himself.
  • (7) Our current recommendation for initial treatment is excision of the primary tumor followed by irradiation with generous fields to include the primary tumor site and draining regional lymphatics to doses of 46-50 Gy in 2 Gy fractions.
  • (8) The smoky density of the mackerel was nicely offset by the pointed black olive tapenade and the fresh, zingy flavours present in little tangles of tomato, shallot, red pepper and spring onion, a layer of pea shoots and red chard, and the generous dressing of grassy olive oil.
  • (9) Both he and Burns were generous with their time when talking to me, and offered thoughtful contributions to that article.
  • (10) I will confine myself to correcting Kaiman's slanders against the most open and generous immigration system in the developed world.
  • (11) The Double Irish loophole allows US companies, mostly in the technology and pharmaceutical sectors, to reduce their effective tax bill far below Ireland’s already generous 12.5% corporate tax rate by shifting most of their taxable income from an operating company in Ireland to another Irish-registered firm located in an offshore tax haven, such as Bermuda.
  • (12) It is bad enough that the minimum wage required by law is hardly generous, yet there we were again last week confronted with reports of delivery company Hermes exploiting workers , HM Revenue & Customs widening its investigation into the notorious wages shirker Sports Direct and a challenge to Uber’s employment practices.
  • (13) There were mainly nosocomial infections resulting from too generously administered antibiotics.
  • (14) Offering our ADF 2% with no cuts to conditions isn’t exactly generous, but it is a mile ahead of the attack on rights and real wages on offer from this government to public sector workers,” she said.
  • (15) How can this generously dubbed "elite" guarantee the future of the nation?
  • (16) With Level I as a generous clinical indicator, 110 (25%) of 525 patients were transfused in excess of blood needs; by Level II (intermediate) and Level III (strict) criteria, 221 (42%) and 314 (60%) of 525 patients, respectively, were transfused in excess of blood needs.
  • (17) When the frozen or paraffin section diagnosis of a generous excisional biopsy was noninvasive breast carcinoma, there was a substantial risk that foci of the same type of noninvasive carcinoma were also present in other quadrants.
  • (18) In the current experiments we investigated whether the previously recognized sparseness of A beta on the surface of tubular epithelial cells might be accounted for by a protein coding difference deduced from the primary structure of its transcript compared with sequence from lymphoid cells that normally express A beta in generous amounts.
  • (19) Foster, as minister for the environment three years ago, hatched a scheme to promote renewable fuels through excessively generous subsidies.
  • (20) But his magnificent, exact rendering of the world, in his mordant, civilised and generous prose, has no comparison.

Lavish


Definition:

  • (a.) Expending or bestowing profusely; profuse; prodigal; as, lavish of money; lavish of praise.
  • (a.) Superabundant; excessive; as, lavish spirits.
  • (v. t.) To expend or bestow with profusion; to use with prodigality; to squander; as, to lavish money or praise.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The standard varies from modest to lavish – choose carefully and you could be staying in an antique-filled room with your host's paintings on the walls, and breakfasting on the veranda of a tropical garden.
  • (2) According to Hairullo, it was always Nazarov’s dream to live lavishly and easily.
  • (3) For more than half a century, Saudi leaders manipulated the United States by feeding our oil addiction, lavishing money on politicians, helping to finance American wars, and buying billions of dollars in weaponry from US companies.
  • (4) These late paintings were deemed too perfect, not "badly done" enough, perhaps, and unchallenging: there was in them a marked absence of painterly lavishness.
  • (5) What Norbert Lynton called "painterly lavishness" took over Scott's work.
  • (6) Obama and Cameron's display of unity on Afghanistan came during a visit in which the US president pushed the boundaries of protocol, bestowing on Cameron a lavish state dinner at the White House and issuing his most enthusiastic endorsement yet of the "rock solid" Anglo-American special relationship.
  • (7) Thus alternative medicine may become a disadvantage, a danger for science (lavished means) and society (misguidance of patients).
  • (8) It is what I do with it, rather than what I am worth, that I believe is more important.” Unlike some of his predecessors, such as Bendor, the 2nd Duke, who lavished diamonds on his lover Coco Chanel and wanted Britain to ally with Hitler, the 6th Duke gave to and supported a string of charities and other worthy causes – £500,000 to farmers hit by the 2001 foot and mouth crisis, for instance – and served diligently on the boards of many military and other charities, including Emmaus , for the homeless, for more than 40 years.
  • (9) Nowhere was this truer than him lavishing tens of thousands of pounds on slanted private polling rather than in helping friends and colleagues get elected."
  • (10) At some point in the future (the theory goes) publishers will no longer need to spend a fortune on marketing Max Hastings' next book by lavishing money on Waterstones or in print.
  • (11) News of the improvements came the day after Sir Michael Wilshaw lavished praise on the performance of England’s primaries, in contrast to the progress of state secondaries, which the Ofsted chief inspector described as being stalled.
  • (12) Indeed, lavish media approval of a scheme so fabulously harebrained as Fiennes's can't but suggest continued respect for a version of masculinity that will always reject domesticity and grandmothers in favour of all-male challenges in the Antarctic, or at the golf club, or, failing that, at the House of Commons.
  • (13) I lavish my kids with money, I lavish the house with it.
  • (14) The place was located in an old warehouse and had been lavishly decorated.
  • (15) Animal rights organisations have been handing out awards and lavishing praise on slaughterhouse designers and burger restaurant chains after "negotiations" for small changes that leave the systems of exploitation intact.
  • (16) The clean-up period – the financial and moral reckoning that can last up to a decade – is when you get to see what a bank and its culture are made of: whether they respond with remorse (rare), with distancing hubris (frequent), or with lavish payouts (always).
  • (17) The most visible sign of this is the arrival each day, when parliament is in session in its lavish, marble-decked halls in the new capital of Naypyidaw , of scores of officers, natty in their freshly pressed olive drab.
  • (18) I wanted a better life.” Dressed for the festival in a smart black skirt and a high-necked blouse adorned with a cameo necklace, she is enjoying the lavish spectacle.
  • (19) Speaking at the launch of BT Sport , the telecoms company's lavishly funded challenge to Sky's iron grip on Premiership football viewing, Balding said prospects for the women's game were improving.
  • (20) In this lavish reimagining of Los Angeles, traffic jams only happen when the narrative demands them.