prodigal
adjective
wastefully or recklessly extravagant.
prodigals
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pluralof prodigal.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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When the prodigals visited, the Cobbs kept it secret from Jones.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 19, 2018
I was disappointed, naturally, in the ways that home-seeking prodigals are, dismayed to find my otherness in tact among my own.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 22, 2013
With true medieval literalism, Artist Saint likes to use genuine prodigals for his Prodigal Sons, combs missions for repentant sinners when one is needed for a window.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mixes phone calls and wolf calls, prodigals and playboys, manages to emerge as the season's best of a bad lot of comedy farces.
From Time Magazine Archive
Prue settled down with the meekness of returned prodigals for whom fatted calves are killed.
From In a Little Town by Rupert Hughes
