Prodigality
[,prɒdɪ'ɡælətɪ]
Definition
(n.) Extravagance in expenditure, particularly of money; excessive liberality; profusion; waste; -- opposed to frugality, economy, and parsimony.
Typist: Moira
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Wastefulness, extravagance, excess, profusion, lavishness, unthriftiness, squandering.
Typist: Merritt
Examples
- Permit me to give an idea of my devotion to my aunt's interests by recording that, on this occasion, I committed the prodigality of taking a cab. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Has she not bestowed on him every gift in prodigality? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Great nations are never impoverished by private, though they sometimes are by public prodigality and misconduct. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Capitals are increased by parsimony, and diminished by prodigality and misconduct. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- He accuses him of prodigality because of his great public buildings, and of being vain and dissolute (! H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The effects of misconduct are often the same as those of prodigality. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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