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Years of falling revenues and profligate spending have left the state in a fiscal crisis.profligate = wastefully extravagant
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Critics called the event a profligate display of wealth during a time of economic hardship.
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The sexual profligacy of Jews is well known, one of their ugliest traits.† (source)
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All this," he said, including in a wide sweep of his hand the evidence of profligacy about him.† (source)
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If you blast their faith by European formalities, they will become infidels and profligates.† (source)
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If we take any one of these coupled opposites, such as piety and profligacy, the analogy is immediately comprehensible.† (source)
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Were you so profligate with your daylight that you must hunt about for things to do in the dark?† (source)
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He perceived that he had gifts of profligacy which had been neglected.† (source)
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What is to be expected of, or by, such profligates?† (source)
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The middle classes air their moral prejudices over their gross dinner-tables, and whisper about what they call the profligacies of their betters in order to try and pretend that they are in smart society, and on intimate terms with the people they slander.† (source)
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With this handsome offer, Mr Gregsbury once more threw himself back in his chair, and looked like a man who had been most profligately liberal, but is determined not to repent of it notwithstanding.† (source)
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Profligate squandering was my way of breaking with the panicky, parsimonious ghettos of Flushing.† (source)
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Of the asceticism that deadens the senses, as of the vulgar profligacy that dulls them, it was to know nothing.† (source)
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It is true, alas, it is true, that there are many sluggards, gluttons, profligates and insolent beggars among monks.† (source)
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In contrast to the profligate spending on sugar and alcohol, the most impoverished families on the globe appear to spend about 2 percent of their incomes educating their children, even though that is the most reliable escalator out of poverty.† (source)
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There was the truth of virginity and the truth of passion, the truth of wealth and of poverty, of thrift and of profligacy, of carelessness and abandon.† (source)
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