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Meanings of prodigality in English
Catalan
prodigalitat Spanish
gran vida Synonyms
Examples for "extravagance"
Examples for "extravagance"
1
The extravagance of the debates of those years amazes the modern reader.
2
That said, it was still a stunning example of balls-out gamer extravagance.
3
People shook their heads; a few suggested speculations; all agreed on extravagance.
4
Wealth rolled in upon him; he entered upon a career of extravagance.
5
But the extravagance of the satire in some measure injures its effect.
1
Yet we have created a transport system whose design principle is profligacy.
2
The ancient historians invariably note the profligacy of the inhabitants of Byzantium.
3
The friend and servant of Antichrist, his copartner in crime and profligacy.
4
Do not think that this means debauchery and profligacy; nothing like it.
5
The home side's profligacy continued as Mabkhout lashed wide from point-blank range.
1
His lavishness was indiscriminate except in that he entertained only the rich.
2
And you know the lavishness of the big ranches, then and now.
3
To all questions as to the surprising lavishness of cost, Diggory replied:
4
She sheds it on me hourly with a lavishness which scares me.
5
The liberal man tends to err in the direction of lavishness.
1
Into this maelstrom of the Herculaneum highlife our mad ox eagerly plunged.
2
He started off with highlife but then got down with Afro-funk.
3
All sorts of musical ingredients and outside influences entered the highlife mix during its glorious heyday.
4
His early recordings were in the highlife style, the first modern popular music of Ghana and Nigeria.
5
Generally I shy away from putting music into boxes but for highlife I'm happy to make an exception.
1
That is the way things are managed in high life in Europe.
2
The event was eagerly anticipated in the fashionable circles of high life.
3
It was a great dinner-all in the tastes of high life.
4
I'll retire with all this beautiful money, and live the high life.
5
I always thought the high life, the cigarettes, would see her off.
Usage of prodigality in English
1
Those tales of the Far South were given out with some prodigality.
2
She had no care for the future, and exceeded men in prodigality.
3
The effects of misconduct are often the same as those of prodigality.
4
But neither is liberality a principal virtue, nor prodigality a capital vice.
5
Schubert, alone of all the composers, resembles him in his lyric prodigality.
6
The want of money would be no obstacle to prodigality and waste.
7
He raved, and ranted, and exuded epithets with the most lavish prodigality.
8
Seldom has an election been contested with such prodigality of partisan fury.
9
Examples are needed to conduct him to prodigality, ostentation, and moral corruption.
10
Gazing at them, the young man marvelled at his own princely prodigality.
11
Her nature gave itself with a fatal prodigality, or not at all.
12
Insect life, moreover, is sometimes exhibited with monstrous prodigality at Alpine heights.
13
Are you anxious for a humiliating confession, of vanity, folly and prodigality?
14
I am in a fine vein, 'so full of pastime and prodigality!
15
Nor can the prodigality of the meadows in May be quoted in dispute.
16
That curse we see often in the prodigality and dissipation of the children.
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