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prodigal
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  • could such people engender a prodigal aunt?  (source)
    prodigal = wasteful
  • He played the prodigal trump card.  (source)
    prodigal = foolish and long absent family member who should be forgiven
  • The prodigal student returns home.  (source)
    prodigal = long absent
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  • He was the father embracing his prodigal child.  (source)
    prodigal = referring to the person, in the commonly referenced Christian parable, The Prodigal Son
  • Laughter is easier minute by minute, spilled with prodigality, tipped out at a cheerful word.  (source)
    prodigality = abundance (extravagance in amount)
  • If I died suddenly, the name of McLean would flourish prodigally for a thousand years; if Tradd died, the St. Croix name would survive only as a street name, a house name, and in distinguished references in history books.†  (source)
  • Only a very faint bending of the head-dress and plumes welcomed Rawdon and his wife, as those prodigals returned to their family.†  (source)
  • And so, till towards noon, sometimes later, the steady currents of business habitually flow in and out of the Joppa Gate, carrying with them every variety of character; including representatives of all the tribes of Israel, all the sects among whom the ancient faith has been parcelled and refined away, all the religious and social divisions, all the adventurous rabble who, as children of art and ministers of pleasure, riot in the prodigalities of Herod, and all the peoples of note at any time compassed by the Caesars and their predecessors, especially those dwelling within the circuit of the Mediterranean.†  (source)
  • There was the prodigal scene at the door.  (source)
    prodigal = the welcoming of children long absent in an excited and happy way
  • I was thus faced with a bleak prospect and, turning the matter over in my mind, I felt something not far off remorse for the prodigality of the preceding weeks.†  (source)
  • For Lotus had said wilfully that Cuckoo must stay with her as her servant and she paid her prodigally so that the woman was willing enough to serve one instead of a score, and she and Lotus, her mistress, dwelt apart from the others in the new court that Wang Lung had made.†  (source)
  • MOS: No sir, nor devour Soft prodigals.†  (source)
  • ...and in the valley the azaleas would be prodigal of scent,  (source)
    prodigal = abundant
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