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
A providential train wreck brings the prodigals, fortuitously unblemished, back home.
From Time Magazine Archive
Combines 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
The parable is for preachers as well as prodigals.
From The Message and the Man: Some Essentials of Effective Preaching by J. Dodd (James Dodd) Jackson
