prodigally
- adverb
- /prəˈdɪɡəlli/
:
de manera derrochadora
Examples
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July burst upon them, the long sunny stretch of eternal July, days opening prodigally.
Fiction book (2000) -
Jim Zwick. "'Prodigally Endowed with Sympathy for the Cause': Mark Twain's Involvement with the Anti-Imperialist League." <http://web.syr.edu/fj...ain%5fhtml/twainail.html>.
Academic text (1998) -
God indeed responds justly to humanity's self-wrought guilt: "If a creditor requires his debt of a bankrupt, who has prodigally spent all and made himself unable to pay, what unrighteousness is this?" 89 #
Academic text (2018) -
After winning the lottery, he spent his money prodigally, buying luxury cars and extravagant vacations.
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The company was accused of using its budget prodigally, wasting resources on unnecessary projects.
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She decorated her new home prodigally, filling every room with expensive furnishings and artwork.
Synonyms
7
6.0
Using or spending much more than needed
1
4.0
To use resources in a careless way so they are lost
1
9.9
Spending a lot of money or resources in a wasteful, careless way
To spend money wastefully and not save
Antonyms
How Wasteful
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Prodigally comes from the older word prodigal, which meant 'very generous' or 'wasteful', so imagine someone throwing money around like confetti. So, to act prodigally is to spend or give in a very free or careless way.