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Another word for prodigal

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Adjective

  1. Characterized by excessive or imprudent spending

    See also:

    save

    excess

    careful

  2. Given to or marked by unrestrained abundance

    See also:

    excess

    big

Noun

  1. A person who spends money or resources wastefully

    See also:

    save

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Another word for prodigal

Modifier
  1. See also:

    profuse

    wasteful

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Sentence Examples

  • They live frugally, and are only prodigal in powder and human life.

  • His mother's attempt to wean her prodigal son from his dangerous and mostly disreputable pastimes, by forcing him to marry the beautiful but stupid Eudoxia Lopukhina (Jan.

  • Every prodigal, therefore, is a public enemy; every frugal man a public benefactor.

  • His eldest brother being a prodigal he succeeded to the paternal estate, but threw the will into the fire on his brother's promising to reform.

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