Definition, Betydelse & Synonymer | Engelska ordet PRODIGALITY

Definition av PRODIGALITY

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• The marriage was at once an unhappy one; and the prodigality, dissipation and infidelities of her husband justified her in obtaining a formal separation of assets in May 1749.
• The two panels together would have represented the two extremes of prodigality and miserliness, condemning and caricaturing both.
• William Touchstone, a London goldsmith, chastises his apprentice Francis "Frank" Quicksilver for his laziness and prodigality.
• By the 1820s, a number of magazines and newspapers in Saint Petersburg considered it the best confectioner's shop in the city, described as "temple of kickshaw and prodigality".
• Morice informed Lord North of his decision in a written memorial, explaining that the expense of electioneering (£3,000 per year above and beyond the £1,200 revenues of Werrington), the effects of his gout, the prodigality of his steward in maintaining his interest, and his check in the 1774 elections had all convinced him to give up control of the boroughs.
• The demonstration of the Army's prodigality inculcated a culture of wastefulness that had undesirable consequences.
• The demonstration of the Army's prodigality inculcated a culture of wastefulness that had undesirable consequences.

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