extravagancy

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extravagancy Meaning of "extravagancy"

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Definition(s):

  • (n) the quality of exceeding the appropriate limits of decorum or probability or truth

Usage(s):

  1. The Chinese regard the West's failure to make use of excrement as "extreme extravagancy," says Wittwer.
  2. The academicians think that it illustrates their goal of acting "as a steadying influence on the haste or extravagancy of innovators"i.
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