profligately
Example Sentences
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Bransfield spent profligately in other ways, too, according to the investigation.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 23, 2019
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
Bennett was willing to spend profligately to get these kinds of stories into his paper on a routine basis.
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2014
They think of his loans merely as investments, and the more profligately extravagant are the terms and the amount, the better they like them.'
From Correspondence & Conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville with Nassau William Senior from 1834 to 1859, Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville
