Word for "rich and wasteful"
We were just thinking that that is a concept that really ought to have a word. "Wastefully rich"; for example, smoking a $100 bill as a cigarette.
Solution 1:
There are lots of good words that might apply:
- profligate
- extravagant
- spendthrift
- wastrel
- reckless
- cavalier
- squandering
- wasteful
Combining one of these with an immoderate adverb of one sort or another should get the point across just fine.
Solution 2:
The word I would normally use in this situation is decadent.
It connotes moral decline, deterioration, and importantly, luxurious self-indulgence.
Solution 3:
The classic term is conspicuous consumption, coined by Thorstein Veblen in The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899).
Solution 4:
I like prodigal -- especially if the person used to be rich and wasteful but has given it up.
Solution 5:
If you're looking for an adjective, I think Lavish would be perfect. For example:
A lavish cigar.