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Given to or characterized by ostentatious display or extravagance.

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Usage examples (6)
  • Verb (used with object) : He splurged thousands on the party
  • You can find eco versions of pretty much everything you use in your every day life, and even "splurgy" luxury items!
  • A big bag of frozen peas plus more of the omnipresent onion, a little cardamom, and some splurgy but organic chicken broth = at least two dinner's worth of gooood pea soup.
  • I told her mother she ought to take that splurgy ring off the poor little thing's thumb.
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