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
They constitute an unprecedented labor army, which can be, and has been, rushed to every threatened sector, there to construct cement fortlets, dig bunkers, repair breaches and sow mines as prodigally as wheat.
From Time Magazine Archive
Potemkin is now one of the largest landowners in Russia—yet he spends so prodigally that his debts are estimated at 200,000 rubles.
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
Thus he prodigally knocked down his cheque in town, and in a week or two again abandoned civilisation at the call of the bush.
From Our First Half-Century: A Review of Queensland Progress Based Upon Official Information by Queensland
