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- adjective
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- excessively wasteful; recklessly extravagant [Princeton Review]
- recklessly extravagant or wasteful [Barron]
- wildly extravagant; prodigal [Taisha]
- wasteful, prodigal, licentious, extravagant [Nandigam]
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