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lavishing - definition and meaning
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verb lavish .
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You could say that the word "lavishing " is put in — but what Mauldon has left out might matter: the wife did a lot of specific things, not just one.
No Way, Madame Bovary 2004
You could say that the word "lavishing " is put in — but what Mauldon has left out might matter: the wife did a lot of specific things, not just one.
No Way, Madame Bovary 2004
His professions had an air of extraordinary generosity and disinterestedness, which, together with his fawning arts in lavishing civilities on all, made him a popular favorite.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871
Other thoughts after the jump: 1. The sight of Nick Lachey and "the faculty" lavishing "thestudents" with gift bags from K-Mart—and hearing Nick Lachey trymightily to make the word "K-Mart" sound exciting– made me scoff-snortso hard that snot flew out of my nose.
'High School Musical: Get in the Picture' recap: Showmance is in the air! | EW.com 2008
He is retiring because he knows we are screwed with this healthcare "reform" bill and he is outthere lavishing on his lifetime healthcare benefit and retirement pay.
Stupak to announce retirement 2010
The U.S. housing market may be weak, but many big spenders are still lavishing money on luxury homes in the Bay Area.
Big Spenders Buoy Housing Pui-Wing Tam 2011
The bipolar despotic p ig controls the stupid army and preserves power by lavishing favours on the barmy army officers and police chiefs whose hands are so steeped in blood that regime change would be their own nemesis.
Global Voices in English » Fiji: ‘A Christian state’? 2009
His lips skimmed back to my breasts, lavishing attention over one tight, oversensitized nipple and then other with his tongue.
How to Flirt with A Naked Werewolf Molly Harper 2011
Did Beck, Brewer, and crew contribute to the conditions that created the latest assassinations, irrespective of the prayers and pieties they and Republican politicians like John Boehner are now lavishing on the people they have encouraged their fellow citizens to hate those with their "job-killing" and "baby-killing" agendas -- which they apparently pursue when they aren't setting up "death panels"?
Drew Westen: Gun Violence and the Lessons of Tucson: Will the Chambers Once Again Be Loaded Against the American People? Drew Westen 2011
Did Beck, Brewer, and crew contribute to the conditions that created the latest assassinations, irrespective of the prayers and pieties they and Republican politicians like John Boehner are now lavishing on the people they have encouraged their fellow citizens to hate those with their "job-killing" and "baby-killing" agendas -- which they apparently pursue when they aren't setting up "death panels"?
Drew Westen: Gun Violence and the Lessons of Tucson: Will the Chambers Once Again Be Loaded Against the American People? Drew Westen 2011
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