lavishly

[ lav-ish-lee ]

adverb

1. profusely, luxuriously, or extravagantly; in great amounts or without limit:

   He spent lavishly, buying up properties and contributing a boat and more than $1 million to local authorities.

   The recipes are lavishly illustrated with large color photographs intended to whet your appetite.

Other Words From

• o·ver·lav·ish·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of lavishly¹

lavish ( def ) + -ly

Example Sentences

Beijing has lavished subsidies on home-grown chipmakers—mostly to no avail.

From Fortune

On the eve of their daughter Cecily’s lavish wedding, a handyman named Stefan Codrescu bludgeoned a guest named Frank Parris to death.

From Washington Post

News of the absent King’s lavish lifestyle provided an unwelcome contrast to the suffering of his subjects­­—not least of all because Vajiralongkorn’s life of luxury is increasingly seen to come at the taxpayer’s expense.

From Fortune

The day before the vote, she offered an amendment to make the legislation, which lavished tax cuts on corporations and the wealthy, more equitable.

From ProPublica

A wealthy executive testifying from a lavish vacation home in Hawaii could send the wrong message.

From Washington Post

In addition, he had made prudent investments and, except for his wine cellar, did not live lavishly.

From The Daily Beast

Wedged between two marble buildings at the lavishly designed Lincoln Center, sits a single white tent.

From The Daily Beast

He rests lavishly, depicted in a marble sarcophagus that stares up for eternity at the carved depictions of his life story.

From The Daily Beast

Leather bonnets that marked the early 19th century gave way to styled hair and lavishly veiled hats of the 20th century.

From The Daily Beast

The group also spent lavishly on some of its high-ranking executives.

From The Daily Beast

Then she put her anger from her; put from her, too, the insolence and scorn with which so lavishly she had addressed him hitherto.

From Project Gutenberg

In the courts of princes and wealthy natives the vessels and tubes are lavishly adorned with precious metals.

From Project Gutenberg

Anciently, indeed, what had been lavishly given was not seldom violently taken away.

From Project Gutenberg

In Castile was ostentatiously displayed and lavishly spent great fortunes made in remote provinces by oppression and corruption.

From Project Gutenberg

It did not occur to Caleb Landor that this was because he had given to the boy lavishly of everything except himself.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• extravagantly
• generously
• richly