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profligates

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There are moments in which shameless profligates look foolish and feel that they are contemptible.

We have not classed Nell Gwynne among the court profligates; nor can we so describe her.

Dick Leyland had no use for university cultivation and my aunt was persuaded Oxford was a haunt of profligates.

In so far as profligates are selfish brutal natures, as they often are, it is true; but that is not the case with half of them.

It was a resort for slave trading profligates and soul drivers, who were interested in the same business.

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On this page you'll find 17 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to profligates, such as: libertine, rake, waster, lecher, wastrel, and reprobate.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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