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
Yet unlike those prodigals who waste themselves and their substance alike, he was not regarded as either a spendthrift or a debauchee, but rather as a refined voluptuary.''
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
If you can find prodigals, who have ruined their fortunes, broken gamesters or stockjobbers, these may do well as governors; for they will probably be rapacious, and provoke the people by their extortions.
From Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes by Jorgenson, Chester E.
