How to pronounce“profligate”in English
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Definitions of “profligate”
Inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly.
“[H]er Reputation—That—I have no Reaſon to believe is in Queſtion—But then hovv long her profligate Courſe of Pleaſures may make her able to keep it—is a ſhocking Queſtion! and her Preſumption VVhile ſhe keeps it—inſupportable!”
Immoral; abandoned to vice.
“Made prostitute and profligate the muse.”
An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person.
“Have you come to Nelson seeking your death, profligate?”
An overly wasteful or extravagant individual.
“He proposed to call witnesses to show how the prisoner, a profligate and spendthrift, had been at the end of his financial tether, and had also been carrying on an intrigue with a certain Mrs. Raikes, a neighbouring farmer’s wife.”
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