(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.
Unsparing
Definition:
(a.) Not sparing; not parsimonious; liberal; profuse.
(a.) Not merciful or forgiving.
Example Sentences:
(1) Never had I heard anything about what I saw documented so unsparingly in Evan’s photographs: families sleeping in the streets, their clothes in shreds, straw hats torn and unprotecting of the sun, guajiros looking for work on the doorsteps of Havana’s indifferent mansions.
(2) While Coburn was unsparing of his criticism of HSBC, he thanked the bank for its co-operation and said there were issues at other institutions including Citigroup, Wachovia and Western Union.
(3) Considered by many to be a giant in the intellectual world, Judt chronicled his illness in unsparing detail in public lectures and essays – giving an extraordinary account that won him almost as much respect as his voluminous historical and political work, for which he was feted on both sides of the Atlantic.
(4) Why won’t he help?” His 1966 Macbeth, with Alec Guinness and Simone Signoret , at the Royal Court, had pushed Shakespeare’s murky tragedy into unsparing white light, but Gaskill’s unscrubbed classics seemed less revelatory in later years.
(5) The injury-weakened German champions went down 3-1 in their quarter-final first leg , leaving their hopes of making the Champions League semi-finals hanging by a thread, and Bayern’s honorary president and most distinguished defender was unsparing in his criticism of the team.
(6) You’re getting sacked in the morning,” also came down, unsparingly, from the most vertiginous part of the Leazes End.
(7) They asked him why he kept talking like an accountant or an economist, always failing to see “the moral dimension.” To his deputy they were just as unsparing, beginning – as Nick Clegg must have known they would – with the credibility he lost, the reputation he destroyed, when he broke his word on tuition fees, and moving on to ask what plans he was making for life out of work.
(8) But if the afternoon has any lasting impact on those with mental health concerns, it will be because of the unsentimental but unsparing personal stories of those four MPs.
(9) In Night , reproduced here, Judt subjects his own deterioration to the same unsparing scrutiny as he would the Israel-Palestine conflict, say.
(10) In 1994, while compiling his unsparing report on the Treasury, he had met and worked with Suzanne Cook, a civil servant who was even more organised than he was.
(11) The taxpayer subsidises MPs' bars and canteens to the tune of £5.8m a year, and my verdict on myself for this indulgence is unsparing.
(12) Weiner review: an unsparing portrait of politics and a gift that keeps giving Read more A voice from behind a camera perched inside her Manhattan apartment asks her to describe how she feels.
(13) Those that could were forced to keep walking north and settled in refugee camps on the unsparing volcanic rock where they swiftly began to die in their tens of thousands from cholera.
(14) Keane, who admits his relationship with the Ipswich players was often fractious and once resulted in a physical confrontation with Jon Walters, is unsparing in his criticisms, accusing Couñago of being lazy and uncommitted and saying he was another player with whom his relationship almost descended into violence.
(15) Senator John McCain , a former prisoner of war in Vietnam who was the Republicans’ 2008 nominee, was unsparing.
(16) Asked why the New York tabloids have gone for him so hard, Weiner says: “I lied to them, I’ve got a funny name and they don’t do nuance.” Weiner review: an unsparing portrait of politics and a gift that keeps giving Read more It’s maybe inevitable that Weiner’s qualities as a politician are subsumed beneath the chatter about his poise as a glamour model.
(17) A Yi, for instance, is barely known even in China, but his quality as a morally unsparing writer – a kind of Chinese cousin to Camus , unafraid to depict corruption and toxic working lives – has interested the best translators of Chinese fiction such as Julia Lovell , who translated his stark fable of farming villagers dwarfed by huge forces of globalisation, The Curse .
(18) So these unsparing public accounts of dying are perhaps best read as a tentative kind of prayer for the godless: a lesson in being able when the time eventually comes to leave our children with grace, put right some wrongs, and to accept what we cannot change.
(19) Today's report is also unsparing about the behaviour of two bodies whose original duty it had been to investigate the evidence against the News of the World.
(20) Eaten Fish’s drawings are unsparing works that attempt to bring before our eyes the forms of abjection, criminality and violence that have been fostered through the organisation of the camps.