Sample Sentences forprofligate (auto-selected)
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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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Were you so profligate with your daylight that you must hunt about for things to do in the dark?† (source)
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Profligate squandering was my way of breaking with the panicky, parsimonious ghettos of Flushing.† (source)
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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.† (source)
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We were allowed our own candle, to undress by at night, but Mrs. Honey said we weren't to burn it up in a profligate way, each candle was to last us a week, and that was less light than Mary wanted to have.† (source)
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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.† (source)
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The sexual profligacy of Jews is well known, one of their ugliest traits.† (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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We both know that he has been profligate in every sense of the word; that he has neither integrity nor honor; that he is as false and deceitful as he is insinuating.† (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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If you blast their faith by European formalities, they will become infidels and profligates.† (source)
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She said that artists are a bad element, a profligate bunch who shoot heroin.† (source)
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He perceived that he had gifts of profligacy which had been neglected.† (source)
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