Both Uses of
profligate
in
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky
- She was a sensible woman and so she could not help looking upon me as a dissolute profligate incapable of real love.†
Chpt 6.4 *
- No doubt it is a pleasure for a worn-out profligate to describe such adventures with a monstrous project of the same sort in his mind—especially under such circumstances and to such a man as me....It's stimulating!†
Chpt 6.4
Definition:
to spend money recklessly or wastefully; or a person who does so regularly