profligate
Example Sentences
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You call yourself a spender, but maybe that’s really just in the sense of spending all that you have coming in, rather than profligate luxury spending.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026
This much silence from pop music’s most dramatic main character, biggest cornball and most profligate breadcrumb dropper has rattled the usual channels for all things Swift.
From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2026
It’s funny because it’s swaggering, full-of-itself New York, and the Mets are one of baseball’s most profligate franchises, a free-spending, $360-million payroll outfit owned by zillionaire financier Steve Cohen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026
His son David speculated that his dad’s mixed feelings about his fast-food career stemmed from a mentality common among children of the Depression: “Excess bothered them. It almost seemed profligate and unnecessary,” he explained.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026
He bought four pair—a profligate quantity of socks—and not only were they not gray, no two pair were even the same color.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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