prodigal

Wastefully extravagant.

He found himself guilty of prodigal spending during the holidays.

The prodigal son spent his share of his inheritance until he was destitute.

Yielding profusely, lavish.

She was a merry person, glad and prodigal of smiles.

How can he be so prodigal with money on such a tight budget?

Profuse, lavishly abundant.

Goe binde thou vp vond dangling Apricocks, / Which like vnruly Children, make their Syre / Stoupe with oppreſſion of their prodigall weight:

And one, the reapers at their sultry toil. / In front they bound the sheaves. Behind / Were realms of upland, prodigal in oil, / And hoary to the wind.

Behaving as a prodigal son:

Behaving as a prodigal son:

Simon Hart of the Daily Telegraph has tweeted that the prodigal triple-jumper has come home, in preparation for tomorrow's qualification round.

I went away to come back / Like a prodigal Christian

A prodigal person; a spendthrift; a wastrel.

Now thinkes he that her husbands ſhallow tongue, / The niggard prodigall that praiſde her ſo: / In that high task hath done her Beauty wrong.

Change into extremity is very frequent and easy. As when a beggar suddenly grows rich, he commonly becomes a prodigal; for, to obscure his former obscurity, he puts on riot and excess.