1. the quality or state of spending money or resources wastefully or extravagantly
Usage: formal

Examples

• His prodigality with company funds led to his dismissal.
• The king’s prodigality bankrupted the royal treasury.
• She criticized the government’s prodigality in spending taxpayer money.
• The family’s prodigality during prosperous times left them unprepared for hardship.
• His prodigality was evident in the expensive gifts he bought for everyone.
• The novel depicts the prodigality of the wealthy elite during the Gilded Age.