Both Uses of
profligate
in
The Picture of Dorian Gray - 20 chapter version
- Of the asceticism that deadens the senses, as of the vulgar profligacy that dulls them, it was to know nothing.†
Chpt 11 *
- 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.†
Chpt 12
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) 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.