profligate
adjective
utterly and shamelessly immoral or dissipated; thoroughly dissolute.
profligately
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a word derived from
profligate.
Example Sentences
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“He confided it, displayed it, spread it profligately, even expanded it to connect it with your life. He would settle for nothing less.”
From Washington Post ● Jun. 12, 2020
If I had to choose between spending really effectively on climate change or spending profligately on missions to the moon, well, I’d be hard-pressed to choose the moon.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 10, 2019
Too often, we precisely monitor the former and profligately praise the latter.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 4, 2016
There were four Swansea players in the penalty area when Matteo Darmian crossed from the left and not one of them could get near the Belgian, who profligately volleyed wide.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 6, 2016
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.
From Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
