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- adjective
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- recklessly wasteful; extravagant; profuse; lavish [Princeton Review]
- spending money or resources too freely; extravagant [Barron]
- characterized by wasteful expenditure; lavish [Taisha]
- wasteful, reckless with money [Nandigam]
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