The Only Use of
profligate
in
Jane Eyre
- If you think so, you must have a strange opinion of me; you must regard me as a plotting profligate — a base and low rake who has been simulating disinterested love in order to draw you into a snare deliberately laid, and strip you of honour and rob you of self— respect.†
Chpt 27
Definition:
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(profligate) to spend money recklessly or wastefully; or a person who does so regularly