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prodigality

NOUN
  1. the trait of spending extravagantly
  2. excessive spending

How To Use prodigality In A Sentence

  • But his prodigality, which is excessive, after a time brought him to London; and the bishop imagined that, with his help, my scruples would at last be conquered. The Adventures of Hugh Trevor
  • Although William Beckford wrote a Gothick romance as reckless and immoderate as himself, his life of epic prodigality would arrest attention had he not written a single line.
  • I regarded _tragic_ knowledge as the most beautiful luxury of our culture, as its most precious, most noble, most dangerous kind of prodigality; but, nevertheless, in view of its overflowing wealth, as a justifiable _luxury_. The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms.
  • This pleasing prodigality would be easier to browse if the columns of text were not so close-set.
  • If time be of all things the most precious, wasting of time must be the greatest prodigality. 
  • It would be some time before it bloomed and lit up the cliffs with its yellow-flowered prodigality again.
  • Has she not bestowed on him every gift in prodigality? I.6
  • If time be of all things the most precious, wasting of time must be the greatest prodigality. 
  • If time be of all things the most precious, wasting of time must be the greatest prodigality. 
  • This, then, is the sense in which we take the word 'prodigality'. The NICOMACHEAN ETHICS
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