(a.) Given to extravagant expenditure; expending money or other things without necessity; recklessly or viciously profuse; lavish; wasteful; not frugal or economical; as, a prodigal man; the prodigal son; prodigal giving; prodigal expenses.
(n.) One who expends money extravagantly, viciously, or without necessity; one that is profuse or lavish in any expenditure; a waster; a spendthrift.
Example Sentences:
(1) So intense was the pre‑match excitement in Dortmund over the return of the prodigal Jürg – much of it media-led – that walking around this flat, functional city on the afternoon of the game you half expected to stumble across Klopp shrines, New Orleans-style Klopp jazz funerals, to look up and find his great beaming visage looming over the city like some vast alien saucer.
(2) Surely not just to accommodate Fabregas who is looking ever more an Arsenal reject than a prodigal son."
(3) Australia The role of Assange, the country's prodigal son, has generated the most coverage and debate.
(4) The album – 14 stoned insights into the mind of a prodigal 19-year-old submerged in bleak inner-city paranoia – may feel disobediently unbrilliant at times.
(5) The French poet Charles Baudelaire, prodigal son of the industrial revolution, is less careful with his time.
(6) Throughout the last stretch of the journey, in a minibus driving along winding roads through the misty Welsh landscape, I am in full prodigal-son mode, returning to the land of my fathers, or at least my mother's fathers.
(7) The results obtained indicated that only the mutant N189-10A, which have a defect in the pathway positioned next to the nucleotide precursor, guanosine triphosphate (GTP), produces prodigeous amounts of diacetyl and acetoin among the mutants and the wild strain used.
(8) Managerless Sunderland did an awful lot right but even their own, impressive, prodigal son, Lee Cattermole – starting his first Premier League match since February – could not prevent them coming undone on the break and they remain stuck firmly to the bottom of the table.
(9) He’d been Howard’s prodigal son, sometimes kissed and sometimes banished.
(10) Society wants a repentant sinner, but Arena's is a story about theatre and ideas, not some prodigal redemption.
(11) As any casual browser in the biography section of a bookshop will quickly realise, it is not enough these days for the writers of biographies to stand at one remove from their subjects; readers and publishers demand more of a connection – a lover, a prodigal son, an ex-wife.
(12) It's good for the league to snag a prodigal son, but Landon Donovan has been around for years.
(13) It will abolish guardianship by reason of mental disease, mental deficiency, prodigality, habitual drunkenness and drug addiction as well as guardianship of persons of full age and curatorship of infirm adults.
(14) Desperate to regain corporate members and shore up its ailing finances, Alec put together a list of companies it wished to woo back under the title “ the Prodigal Son Project ”.
(15) We should do for Greece what the Allies did for Germany, and say that she should not spend more than 3% of her export revenues on debt servicing, and that should be the deciding factor.” A survey of economists by Bloomberg last week found that more than half expect Greece to receive some debt relief after the election – notwithstanding the purported “moral hazard” of bailing out prodigal debtors.
(16) True, the Tottenham manager's "prodigal son" scored twice, Adebayor thereby boosting his goal tally to nine in 12 games, but Paulinho, Mousa Dembélé and Hugo Lloris all enjoyed splendid evenings too.
(17) This recurrent theme in her fictional writing is linked to events in her own family life, in particular her own assumption of a scapegoat-prodigal child role during the "African period" of her life.
(18) If it follows the prodigal habits of its parents, it would waste more energy in its lifetime than 20 Kenyans would carefully consume.
(19) He wants Kiev to return on its knees, like a prodigal son, to the fatherly embrace of the empire.
(20) In this dysfunctional family comedy, directed by Niegel Smith, a prodigal son returns home to find that his sister is now a brother and his formerly put-upon mother (the marvelously screwball Kristine Nielsen) is newly liberated and feeling less than wifely.
Spendthrift
Definition:
(n.) One who spends money profusely or improvidently; a prodigal; one who lavishes or wastes his estate. Also used figuratively.
(a.) Prodigal; extravagant; wasteful.
Example Sentences:
(1) Baelish's talent is for keeping his spendthrift master in cash.
(2) Berlin has ignored the pleas of the OECD, IMF and its allies in Paris and Rome, believing that such a solution would only worsen the spendthrift ways of their southern neighbours.
(3) I’ve never been much of a spendthrift, never really spent on holidays, cars or things like that.
(4) Johnson is the latest in a long line of politicians charged with the funding of academic research who thinks it needs to prove its worth in advance; that highly educated people working hard to fill the gaps in human knowledge never got us anywhere, and what those spendthrift boffins need to do is direct their research towards a readily monetisable goal.
(5) It would bring down to earth the spendthrift populism of Salmond's nationalists, probably lose them the next election and damage the cause of full independence.
(6) She is nobody's idea of a spendthrift, happily chucking money in the direction of the undeserving poor.
(7) Wilders argued Rutte was insulting a million voters by excluding him from the negotiations in advance and accused his rivals of being “liars and spendthrifts”.
(8) He believes this change in behaviour marks a long-term shift from the spendthrift habits of the boom to a savings culture.
(9) While the president stuffs his bank accounts and his spendthrift son fritters away a fortune on flash cars, more than half his people lack access to safe water, child survival rates are reportedly falling and numbers of children receiving primary education dropping.
(10) It was a system that ensured waste by rewarding the most profligate spendthrifts in a system specifically engineered to waste the band’s money.
(11) When combined with the borrowing accumulated by our bloated banking sector and spendthrift consumers before the bubble burst, the UK's debt burden is world-beating.
(12) The problem is not that we lack self-reliance, or that we are spendthrifts.
(13) Then there's the culture that makes Germans the biggest savers and most reluctant spenders, encouraging national stereotypes about the thrifty and the spendthrift, the scroungers and the stingy.
(14) Thus I enjoy the spendthrift distinction of having purchased four Xbox 360 consoles in three years, having abandoned the first to the care of a friend in Brooklyn, left another floating around Europe with parties unknown, and stranded another with a pal in Tallinn (to the irritation of his girlfriend).
(15) This is one of those rare times when the lazy, spendthrift way of doing things really is best: you need to go to the garden centre at the earliest opportunity and buy plants that are big enough to harvest immediately.
(16) Acting on that without the clunking fist of across-the-board interest rate rises would be admirably surgical, since this way the residents of Kingston upon Hull are not punished for the spendthrift house buying of Kingston upon Thames.
(17) Dickens, having known real poverty in childhood and seen his father imprisoned for debt, was very careful with money all his life, drove fierce bargains with publishers, and featured many foolish spendthrifts in his books including Mr Micawber who also lands in a debtors’ prison.
(18) Judging by today's great quango cull , hacking back the unloved tentacles of a supposedly bloated, spendthrift state has proved neither as easy nor as lucrative as hoped.
(19) The determination to cut budget deficits in these circumstances does not show that policymakers of probity and integrity have replaced the irresponsible spendthrifts of 2008 and 2009.
(20) She told the Observer that she was wary of becoming a "monster" because of her success and of being a spendthrift.