prodigality
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"Prodigality is the spirit of the era," Social Critic Vance Packard declared in The Waste Makers 20 years ago.
From Time Magazine Archive
Well, this is our acceptation of the term Prodigality.
From Ethics by Aristotle
Prodigality, is it true? young, wasteful, roisting Prodigality, To encounter old, sparing, covetous, niggard Tenacity?
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 by Hazlitt, William Carew
Prodigality and superfluity are stamped on everything she does.”
From The Vagabond in Literature by Rickett, Arthur
Prodigality had been a sin a prince Might have been proud in compared to this.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 by Dodsley, Robert
Vocabulary lists containing prodigality
The Great Gatsby
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30 GRE Words Beginning with "P"
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Novel Study: The Great Gatsby, Chapters 1–6
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