(n.) Extravagance in expenditure, particularly of money; excessive liberality; profusion; waste; -- opposed to frugality, economy, and parsimony.
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.
Profligacy
Definition:
(a.) The quality of state of being profligate; a profligate or very vicious course of life; a state of being abandoned in moral principle and in vice; dissoluteness.
Example Sentences:
(1) Orient, the League One leaders, dominated from the outset but paid for their profligacy in front of goal.
(2) His profligacy was punished five minutes later when Jay Rodriguez demonstrated how the sidefoot finish ought to be executed, tucking away Adam Lallana's squared pass from the right at the far post.
(3) Adam Lallana and Sterling squandered glorious chances to put the game beyond QPR in the second half and their profligacy was punished when Fer vollied Joey Barton’s corner down the centre of Mignolet’s goal.
(4) Reckless profligacy by Gordon Brown, say Tories; emergency measures to cushion the country from a global crisis, say Labour.
(5) Such is the inefficiency of its industry and the profligacy of its government that some industry experts expect it to run out of money next year.
(6) Anaemic government spending, not profligacy, has been a major factor behind the economy's lacklustre recovery.
(7) Ireland, which entered the financial crisis with one of Europe's lower debt-to-GDP ratios, is being reduced to beggary by the profligacy of its banks and the state's determination to shoulder the burden of supporting their impossible lending.
(8) And let's not forget the profligacy of imagination that underpins his science fiction.
(9) US universities are also fearfully expensive, consuming public and private resources with similar profligacy to US health services.
(10) Eager to soften her image as an austerity warmonger in the runup to the polls, the chancellor has gone on a charm offensive, speaking often of the pain she feels for the difficulty ordinary Greeks have had to endure as a result of their country's profligacy.
(11) The abundance of perks, benefits and bonuses that pushed profligacy to its limits was nurtured by runaway bureaucracy that gave way to loopholes and abuse.
(12) But Blackburn were punished for their profligacy 63 minutes in.
(13) Just as their patient approach is about to be praised, an equaliser in stoppage time switches all the focus to the perceived profligacy when they were dominant.
(14) Labour’s communication strategy remains woeful, and it lacks the means to develop a grand narrative that ties this all together, or a way of getting out of the “but you caused the last crisis through your profligacy” trap.
(15) Willian made amends for his team-mate’s profligacy soon enough.
(16) In 1774, one of Britain’s wealthiest traders was summoned to parliament to account for profligacy and corruption.
(17) Ordinary people are being forced to pay for the bankers' profligacy," he argues.
(18) The American right has demonstrated that again and again over a decades-long campaign to gain control of political institutions with the express aim of dramatizing the inefficiency, corruption, and profligacy of the very idea of government.
(19) The main thing that struck a chord was not the profligacy of supermarkets but the elegiac decay of the bagged salad: more than two-thirds of it thrown out, half by customers, half by stores.
(20) The corporation's critics immediately jumped on the claim as evidence of executive profligacy.