lavishly

From Middle English lavausly, equivalent to lavish +‎ -ly.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlævɪʃli/

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lavishly (comparative more lavishly, superlative most lavishly)

1. In a lavish manner, expending profusely.

   He was noted to entertain lavishly, throwing the biggest and best parties in town.

   • 1892, Walter Besant, chapter II, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:

     At twilight in the summer […] the mice come out. They […] eat the luncheon crumbs. Mr. Checkley, for instance, always brought his dinner in a paper parcel in his coat-tail pocket, and ate it when so disposed, sprinkling crumbs lavishly—the only lavishment of which he was ever guilty—on the floor.