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
Wilson probably had more time than he realised and profligately placed a left-footed shot from 12 yards well wide of the far upright.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 24, 2019
Too often, we precisely monitor the former and profligately praise the latter.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 4, 2016
But if we will get down closer and examine what we are doing, we will find that we are living profligately and squandering our heritage in every possible manner.
From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 1 March 1906 by Various
