Both Uses of
profligate
in
A Tale of Two Cities
- What is to be expected of, or by, such profligates?†
Chpt 2.13 *
- …through a few calm hours of the horrors surrounding them; in the towers of the churches, where no prayers were said, for the popular revulsion had even travelled that length of self-destruction from years of priestly impostors, plunderers, and profligates; in the distant burial-places, reserved, as they wrote upon the gates, for Eternal Sleep; in the abounding gaols; and in the streets along which the sixties rolled to a death which had become so common and material, that no sorrowful…†
Chpt 3.9
Definition:
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(profligate) to spend money recklessly or wastefully; or a person who does so regularly