prodigality
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The Void of Azuzel was originally designed to punish prodigality, avarice’s mirror image, and vanity, pride reflected back on itself.
From Slate ● Feb. 28, 2021
In point of extravagance and notoriety, the most celebrated of the feasts was that arranged by Tigellinus; which I shall describe as a type, instead of narrating time and again the monotonous tale of prodigality.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2019
And her most resourceful construction is the novel itself, a feat of narrative prodigality that staves off, word by word, the destruction of an entire community.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 15, 2015
“Great nations are never impoverished by private, though they sometimes are by public prodigality and misconduct.”
From Forbes ● Sep. 28, 2014
Laughter is easier, minute by minute, spilled with prodigality, tipped out at a cheerful word.
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The regent, Duke of Orleans, who succeeded him, increased this debt still more, especially by his reckless and infamous prodigalities, under the direction of his prime minister,--his old friend and tutor,--Cardinal Dubois.
From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 08 Great Rulers by John Lord
Without reflecting that the avarice of parents prepares the way for the prodigalities of children, he allowed almost nothing to his son, although that son was an only child.
From The Marriage Contract by Honoré de Balzac
Instinct, nature, a divine, an impersonal activity, heal in us the wounds made by our own follies; the invisible genius of our life is never tired of providing material for the prodigalities of the self.
From Amiel's Journal by Mrs. Humphry Ward
The mob rose in Paris, imputing to the court the prodigalities with which the Parliament reproached the late comptroller-general.
From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6 by Robert Black
To reform the prodigalities of our predecessors is understood to be peculiarly our duty, and to bring the government to a simple and economical course.
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph
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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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