adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a lavish/extravagant lifestyle (= in which you buy or do expensive things )
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How can he afford such a lavish lifestyle?
extravagant claims (= clearly not true )
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Some manufacturers make extravagant claims for their products.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
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The Secretary of State made more extravagant claims for the Bill than its content would justify.
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For special occasions, you can be more extravagant and go for dramatic, impressive displays.
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Some deals are more extravagant than others.
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No, I can't say I share all of my husband's more extravagant enthusiasms.
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An even more extravagant bouquet than usual lay waiting for her on the draining-board.
most
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To these ends, the most extravagant claims were made.
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The most extravagant possibilities of an egoism which both enhances and distorts awareness spring from the appetite for power.
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What is the most extravagant thing you ever did, can you remember?
too
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If anything, we were too extravagant in the late 1980s when money was rolling in - we took everything for granted.
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His offer was too extravagant and they all knew it.
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Don't be too extravagant this evening.
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On a world of higher gravity, the maneuver would have been far too extravagant of fuel.
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There's a lively accent on finance; but don't be too extravagant .
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This is too extravagant to be maintained.
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But the Government today said the plans were too extravagant and the Council would have to cutback by £10 million.
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She hoped Miss Grimes wouldn't think them too extravagant .
■ NOUN
claim
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To these ends, the most extravagant claims were made.
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The extravagant claims made were more significant for what they anticipated than for what could then be accomplished.
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The Secretary of State made more extravagant claims for the Bill than its content would justify.
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Naturally there is a lot of grandstanding and extravagant claims .
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But all these rather extravagant claims have had to be made via the old-fashioned printed page.
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Postwar politics made extravagant claims for its own power, and unsurprisingly failed to deliver.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Extravagant claims have been made for some herbal remedies including the curing of baldness.
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extravagant marketing claims
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$400 on a dress! That's a bit extravagant , isn't it?
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Rich and extravagant parents are spending more and more money on their children's parties.
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The gifts, though not extravagant , were nice.
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Van Jong's personal life was notably extravagant .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An extravagant collection of activities centered on the family shrine, as the sweet scent of incense hovered placidly above us.
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Hundreds, thousands, and not one of them with sufficient imagination to try a really extravagant swindle.
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If anything, we were too extravagant in the late 1980s when money was rolling in - we took everything for granted.
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Nature abhors the superfluous, yet is constrained to produce the seemingly extravagant .
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The extravagant claims made were more significant for what they anticipated than for what could then be accomplished.
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The Conservatives, on the other hand, protect the counties and suspect the great urban authorities of being extravagant .
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When the air became more thickly populated, such extravagant forms disappeared.
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Yet, as I said, you are not extravagant , I am.