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Profligate

Profligate meaning

Inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly. | Immoral; abandoned to vice. | Profligated: routed, overcome, driven away.

Example sentences (20)

And third, what would be so awful about our too-big, too-profligate government grinding to a halt for a week or so?

The police spokesman enjoined the people to be prudent and not profligate as they celebrate.

The RN must now be hoping that the Assembly is either deadlocked or dominated by an economically profligate far-left agenda that could further threaten France’s already strained budget.

Before the coronavirus pandemic put millions of Americans out of work, spending so much money on new doomsday weapons was profligate.

They’re afraid a GOP Senate won’t agree to another spending blowout to rescue profligate states like Illinois and New Jersey.

The favourite son of Pope Alexander, Cesare had led a profligate life at the Vatican in the company of whores, drunkards and courtesans.

The Republican Party under Trump is now the most profligate and debt-driving party in the nation’s history.

And Paul isn’t making an exception for profligate military spending like many so-called fiscal hawks do, even though it makes up the biggest share of the federal budget.

It is the view of this newspaper that the government must not be profligate with regard to the management of its resources; it should rather channel it into avenues that will stimulate growth and boost the economy.

Its pattern was as in the first half, but more so: the metronomic mastery of the Croats versus the profligate flair of the French.

I was elated when Nigerians succeeded in chasing away the profligate and reckless government of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), led by President Goodluck Jonathan.

Paying bills with borrowed money is the way of the scoundrel… the profligate… the bankrupt.

Profligate Arsenal punished by 10-man Atletico Madrid (Today) - Outgoing Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger lamented a familiar defensive lapse as his side failed to.

Apuleius accused a profligate personal enemy of turning his house into a brothel and prostituting his own wife.

A rather profligate spender, she had a large library and loved to entertain and listen to music.

Ellmann (1988:406) The largest cut was the removal of the character of Mr. Gribsby, a solicitor who comes from London to arrest the profligate "Ernest" (i.

For example, generosity is a virtue between the two extrema of miserliness and being profligate.

Imagine to yourself everything most profligate and shocking in the way of dancing and sitting down together."sfn The Lefroy family intervened, sending him away at the end of January.

One essay ended: The English nation, therefore, rallies for rescue from the degrading plots of a profligate oligarchy, a barbarizing sectarianism, and a boroughmongering Papacy, round their hereditary leaders—the Peers.

Profligate, like all people without a rule of life, he is only coherent as an actor.