Sample sentences for PROFLIGATE

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Definition

to spend money recklessly or wastefully; or a person who does so regularly

Much more rarely, profligate can refer to behavior considered immoral or to someone who behaves in such a way.

Years of falling revenues and profligate spending have left the state in a fiscal crisis.

a profligate and a drunkard
She was a sensible woman and so she could not help looking upon me as a dissolute profligate incapable of real love.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Crime and Punishment
And he to me, "That is the ancient soul of profligate Myrrha, who became her father's lover beyond rightful love.
Dante Alighieri -- Dante's Inferno
Although he possessed erves , and by the reserves of energy, he'd been profligate with those res time he got to Camp Four they were nearly depleted.
Jon Krakauer -- Into Thin Air
And it is the same in other directions; you will find us neither profligate nor ascetic.
James Hilton -- Lost Horizon
A profligate-what can I tell you?
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Identity
Of the asceticism that deadens the senses, as of the vulgar profligacy that dulls them, it was to know nothing.
Oscar Wilde -- The Picture of Dorian Gray
He worked hard and earned money and kept hold of it—he was the farthest thing from a profligate.
John Gardner -- The Sunlight Dialogues
The sexual profligacy of Jews is well known, one of their ugliest traits.
William Styron -- Sophie's Choice
Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by laxity of morals amongst all.
Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 2
The list always growing, profligate.
Chang-rae Lee -- Native Speaker
If you blast their faith by European formalities, they will become infidels and profligates.
Willa Cather -- Death Comes for the Archbishop
But instead of their forming a permanent union, of the kind his mother dreamed about, both used it to embark on a profligate way of life.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Love in the Time of Cholera
What is to be expected of, or by, such profligates?
Charles Dickens -- A Tale of Two Cities
I shall never allow people to talk before me about wastefulness and profligacy, and so forth, in connexion with that life, any more.'
Charles Dickens -- David Copperfield
What about the profligate Ernest?
Oscar Wilde -- The Importance of Being Earnest
He perceived that he had gifts of profligacy which had been neglected.
Sinclair Lewis -- Babbitt
A social welfare report also determined that she had had profligate sexual relations with older men and that she was very probably involved in prostitution.
Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
But his father—and his uncle—were the most profligate coachmen that ever sat upon a box.
Charles Dickens -- Bleak House

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