Definitions
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- adjective Lavish to excess.
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- adjective Excessively
lavish ;decadent .
Etymologies
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over- + lavish
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Examples
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Janet is a dear soul and very nicelooking; tall, but not over-tall; stoutish, yet with a certain restraint of outline suggestive of a thrifty soul who is not going to be overlavish even in the matter of avoirdupois.
Anne of the Island 1908
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"I am not suitor to the Lady Isabel; Clarence is overlavish, and Isabel has a fair face and a queenly dowry."
The Last of the Barons — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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"I am not suitor to the Lady Isabel; Clarence is overlavish, and
The Last of the Barons — Volume 03 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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