extravagant lifestyle

collocation in English

meaningsofextravagantandlifestyle

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extravagant
adjective
uk
/ɪkˈstræv.ə.ɡənt/us
/ɪkˈstræv.ə.ɡənt/
spending too much money, or using too much ...
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lifestyle
noun[C]
uk
/ˈlaɪf.staɪl/us
/ˈlaɪf.staɪl/
someone's way of living; the things that a person or particular group of people ...
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(Definition ofextravagantandlifestylefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The defendant told the court that he and a friend had to raise money to pay for anextravagantlifestyle.
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They would be unable to have anextravagantlifestyle.
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Moreira was known for hisextravagantlifestyle.
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One is that he lost public support because of hisextravagantlifestyle.
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His prize is to be immortal so that he could continue hisextravagantlifestyle.
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In addition, his frequent concert schedule, as well as hisextravagantlifestyle, took their toll on his health.
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He led anextravagantlifestyle, which the two continued together, and was discharged in bankruptcy in 1896.
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He was known for hisextravagantlifestyle, with fine clothes, expensive furnishings, and heavy gambling.
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Bully, as he was called by his contemporaries, is best known for hisextravagantlifestyleand the racehorses he bred.
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She was famous for her beauty, and was also noted for herextravagantlifestyle.
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A passionate environmentalist with excessive liberal beliefs, he is at odds with her frivolous andextravagantlifestyle.
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Hisextravagantlifestyleand arrogance caused many of his followers to desert him.
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Despite his profession, he continued hisextravagantlifestyle, and became known as the maccaroni parson.
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Although he was successful academically, he began to run up debt in order to pay for hisextravagantlifestylewhile at the college.
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Even so, herextravagantlifestyleand ill-considered investments left her largely penniless by the time she died.
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Those estates would later be sold to fund the couple'sextravagantlifestyle.
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He spent $50 million of that money on hisextravagantlifestyle.
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He led an increasinglyextravagantlifestyle, having withdrawn his capital from the family firm in 1879.
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Now a very wealthy widow, she became famous for herextravagantlifestyle, living -- it was said -- blindly according to passion, promiscuity and greed.
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However, hisextravagantlifestylelanded him in debt.
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