extravagance , also: extravagancy

He had never heard of such extravagance in his life.

His only extravagance, he said, has been a new car.

For a while, from 2001 to 2003, extravagance went out of style.

They seemed to be the only extravagance about the man, and a small one at that.

Which was the final extravagance she had asked of the Union government.

Working hard to make a living was an extravagance of youth?

Until now, I had never been the target of her public extravagance.

Many families do not view a gap year as an extravagance.

But Oregon has taken the practice to a new level of extravagance.

Both shows have an air of extravagance and excess about them.

It will need to deal with the waste if we are to end this extravagance.

She'd even gone to the extravagance of having her hair washed and set.

The brass section had a lot of the right extravagance.

We can reach for such extravagances without a thought to the consequences.

"But the extravagance, you know, is what made it great to work there."

I'd given mine up as an extravagance I could no longer afford.

However, this extravagance does not make him any less ruthless.

The next day we hired a driver, which is an extravagance, to be sure.

For all this extravagance, the houses did become more modest.

He is only one of the "common people" by comparison with the extravagance that went before.

The light had gone out of my uncle's eyes and the extravagance from his manner.

Congress should address the matter and place some sort of a lid on this extravagance.

He was removed by his father for extravagance, but permitted to return.

He accepted and immediately became known for his extravagance in a variety of ways.

This does not necessarily mean that urban extravagance is the problem.