Potential Titles: Money - Monetary Excess [category]

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Avarice.

Binge:
One long champagne binge - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"

Decadence:
With a decadent sweet art - Seamus Heaney "Aisling"

The decadent ruin where expatriate gods live - Tim Pratt "Ammut in Her Later Years"

Dreaming of the night's decadence - C. Dale Young "The Wolf"

Dilettante:
And watch with dilettante eyes - Richard Le Gallienne "Saint Charles

Effete:
Of an architecture grown effete - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Rope-Maker" transl. by Alma Strettell

Exorbitant:
Proposals vaporized and exorbitant - Leila Chatti "The Rules"

The exorbitant syntax of stars - Jay Wright "Kumu"

Expense/Expensive.

Extravagance.

Fortune.

Frivolous:
some frivolous instinct shifting into weather - Xan Forest Phillips "no one wants to be rough anymore"

Gild.

Greed.

Largesse.

Lavish.

Luxury.

Millionaire:
Until the dreams of millionaires are clothing for the poor - Thomas M. Disch "The Clouds"

That no millionaire can buy - Tom Hall "She Is Mine"

Miser.

Monopoly.

Opulent.

Overpay:
Which o'erpay the power of Destiny - "The King of Darkness: On the Fallen Angels" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]

Posh:
Inhale the posh scent of ragweed - Jaswinder Bolina "Apologia Matilde"

Prosper.

Rich.

Splurge:
Except in the splurge of roses - Mary Oliver "Work"

Spree.

Stingy:
Held horses for a stingy penny - Conrad Aiken "Parasite"

Carry the stingy and melancholy beauty within - Emilio Villa "What's New" transl. by Dominic Siracusa

Sumptuous:
Making sumptuous death - CAConrad “Leave Something Quiet in Shell of My Ear”

Half a loaf from sumptuous crumbs - Countee Cullen "Oh, for a Little While Be Kind"

What sumptuous presents did she not bestow? - Euripedes "Rhesus" transl. by Michael Wodhull

Surplus.

Treasure/Treasury.

Wealth.


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