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
Then, may it please you, the effect is this: There is a certain roister, named Prodigality, That long about this town hath ruffled in great jollity!
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 by Hazlitt, William Carew
Statius had expiated his sins in the circle of Avarice, not for that vice, but for the opposite one of Prodigality.
From Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 1 by Dante Alighieri
Prodigality is less odious than avarice, less irreconcilable with certain virtues, but incomparably more detrimental to a nation's economy.
From Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II by Roscher, Wilhelm
Then what canst thou say for thyself, Prodigality, That according to the law thou shouldst not die?
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 by Hazlitt, William Carew
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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