Both Uses
profligate
in
A Tale of Two Cities
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- What is to be expected of, or by, such profligates?†
Chpt 2.13 *
- 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;†
Chpt 3.9
Definitions:
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(1)
(profligate) carelessly and wastefully extravagant -- especially with money, resources, or behavior
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely, profligate can refer to behavior considered immoral or to someone who behaves in such a way.