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profligate::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | prodigal, squanderer |
| Type of | consumer |
| Has types | waster, wastrel, spender, scattergood, spend-all, spendthrift |
profligate::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | extravagant, prodigal, spendthrift |
profligate::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, fast, libertine, riotous |
Examples of profligate
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We rightly believe his profligate domestic policies must be opposed and stopped.
From the washingtontimes.com
Even monster plasma screens that need 400 to 500 watts aren't profligate per se.
From the washingtonpost.com
America's most profligate states do not owe as much, proportionately, as Greece.
From the economist.com
Icahn tried to force out Lions Gate's leaders, calling them profligate spenders.
From the sfgate.com
We are now paying the price for California's two decades of profligate spending.
From the ocregister.com
To compensate the lucky few victims who stumble upon the most profligate juries.
From the time.com
Even a rich and profligate nation cannot afford such an overlap in capabilities.
From the nation.time.com
In particular, he tried to reassure voters who think the party became profligate.
From the thisislondon.co.uk
The ECB has a charter that prevents it from bailing out profligate governments.
From the economist.com
- Extravagant: recklessly wasteful; "prodigal in their expenditures"
- Rake: a dissolute man in fashionable society
- Debauched: unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women"
- (profligacy) extravagance: the trait of spending extravagantly
- (profligacy) dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure
- A spendthrift (also called profligate) is someone who spends money prodigiously and who is extravagant and recklessly wasteful. The origin of the word is someone who is able to spend money acquired by the thrift of predecessors or ancestors.
- An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person; An overly wasteful or extravagant individual; To drive away; to overcome; Inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly; Immoral; abandoned to vice
- (profligacy) careless wastefulness; shameless and immoral behaviour
