Due to faulty electronics the patriot missile had a good deal of prodigality in its guidance system.

Like the prodigal son of the Bible, her return home after many years away was celebrated joyfully.

decay, desolation, destruction, devastation,dilapidation, dissipation, disuse, exhaustion,expenditure, extravagance, fritter, havoc,improvidence, lavishness, loss, lost opportunity,misapplication, misuse, overdoing, prodigality,ravage, ruin, squander, squandering,unthriftiness, wastage, wastefulness.

Written by: Synonym MAN.

Haste makes waste.

extravagance is a noun