sumptuous

IPA: sˈʌmptʃwʌs

adjective

Magnificent, luxurious, splendid.

Examples of "sumptuous" in Sentences

The design is beautiful and sumptuous.
Sumptuous figures recall the vineyard setting.
The interiors are in a sumptuous classical style.
He said, “What shall we call your sumptuous creation?”
At the end, Nastenka and Ivan have a sumptuous wedding.
The overall look of the film is at once spare and sumptuous.
As always, sumptuous feasts were held to celebrate the occasion.
After a sumptuous Christmas feast, the family was ready to sleep.
His sumptuous mansion was plundered during the plague by thieves.
The furnishing and fittings of the two Chinese restaurants are sumptuous.
Then she robed her in sumptuous robes and set apart for her a place in the
Konstantin Thon was responsible for the sumptuous decoration of the interiors.
They live in sumptuous quarters, with beautiful flowers in large vases, and have a butler, Alfred.
On a superficial note, I loved all the beautiful tracking shots of paintings in sumptuous widescreen.
Then he made peace between them and clad them all in sumptuous robes of honour and hanselled them with precious jewels of land and sea.
Then he bade bring forth money and apparel and clad them in sumptuous robes of honour and showered largesse upon them, wherefore they all loved him and obeyed him.
Not only English society, but Indian princes and princesses, American millionaires, and Continental aristocrats attended this ball attired in sumptuous costumes worth thousands upon thousands of pounds.
Nick Gevers said it best: "(the novel) tells in sumptuous claustrophobic detail just how alien -- and alienated -- a human society might become, portraying a mighty far-future city state driven by absolute standards of meritocracy turning against itself in hysteria and bloodshed"

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