Both Uses of
profligate
in
David Copperfield
- I shall never allow people to talk before me about wastefulness and profligacy, and so forth, in connexion with that life, any more.'†
Chpt 19-21 *
- …by the table, with his finger in the page to keep the place, and his right arm flourishing above his head, Traddles, as Mr. Pitt, Mr. Fox, Mr. Sheridan, Mr. Burke, Lord Castlereagh, Viscount Sidmouth, or Mr. Canning, would work himself into the most violent heats, and deliver the most withering denunciations of the profligacy and corruption of my aunt and Mr. Dick; while I used to sit, at a little distance, with my notebook on my knee, fagging after him with all my might and main.†
Chpt 37-39
Definition:
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(profligate) to spend money recklessly or wastefully; or a person who does so regularly