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luxurious
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  • Inside, he was surprised at how cramped it was, despite the luxurious appointments.†  (source)
  • As for the jet, it's not nearly as luxurious as Connor had expected.†  (source)
  • I try it on over my nightgown and it's so soft and luxurious.†  (source)
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  • Mamaw Blanton's house was my favorite place in the world, though it was neither large nor luxurious.†  (source)
  • And then, almost luxuriously, I stretched my arms high above my head.†  (source)
  • The muscles of his face grouped themselves in hideous luxuriousness, rippled once, then all cleared.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
  • The new colours were pearly, pale — the colours of luxurious indifference, of cool detachment.†  (source)
  • There was a silence in which Crookshanks stretched luxuriously flexing his claws.†  (source)
  • The muscles of his face grouped themselves in hideous luxuriousness, rippled once, then all cleared.†  (source)
  • Indigo's coat was fine and luxurious when brushed up.†  (source)
  • The kitten stretched luxuriously, and looked up at her with huge, innocent eyes.†  (source)
  • He, who sits high above the rest, and seems To have neglected that he should have done, And to the others' song moves not his lip, The Emperor Rodolph call, who might have heal'd The wounds whereof fair Italy hath died, So that by others she revives but slowly, He, who with kindly visage comforts him, Sway'd in that country, where the water springs, That Moldaw's river to the Elbe, and Elbe Rolls to the ocean: Ottocar his name: Who in his swaddling clothes was of more worth Than Winceslaus his son, a bearded man, Pamper'd with rank luxuriousness and ease.†  (source)
  • I was trying to take it all in, this last, luxurious moment—of sharp yellow light, of warm air flowing from the heater.†  (source)
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I grant him bloody, Luxurious, avaricious, false, deceitful, Sudden, malicious, smacking of every sin That has a name.  (source)
Luxurious = lustful
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