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prodigal🔊

Wastefully extravagant.

💬 Quotations
The prodigal heir can only waste his own substance, and the punishment falls, as it should, upon himself; but the prince has an awful responsibility,—the welfare of others is required at his hands; his faults and his follies take a wide range, and not with him does their suffering end.

Yielding profusely, lavish.

Profuse, lavishly abundant.

Having (selfishly) abandoned a person, group, or ideal.

Returning or having returned, especially repentantly, after an abandonment.

A spendthrift; a wastrel.