prodigal
adjective
wastefully or recklessly extravagant.
prodigally
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a word derived from
prodigal.
Example Sentences
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In the troupe’s farewell this week to the Brooklyn Academy of Music, a longtime home for the company, it presents, prodigally, three different programs in four performances only.
From New York Times ● Dec. 8, 2011
The Italians had sown the dangerous metallic seeds as prodigally as some hardy grain.
From Time Magazine Archive
For the next few years he inhaled a lot of folk music, warmed it in his own prodigally creative imagination and exhaled luxuriant clouds of concert music.
From Time Magazine Archive
They were not indeed a part of our aboriginal endowment: Man, as he emerged, was not prodigally equipped to master the infinite diversity of his environment.
From Time Magazine Archive
Piously scorning the salubrious and magnificent localities, so prodigally furnished by nature, they constructed their huts at the bottom of dismal pits, among the cliffs of rugged rocks, in barren deserts, and in solitary wildernesses.
From Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues by John Alberger
