profligate
Example Sentences
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More broadly, what investors must keep in mind is that Japan’s high debt-to-GDP ratio is largely the result of decades of stagnant growth and deflation, not profligate spending.
So, at both ends it is a case of minor details; mistakes at the back, profligate finishing up front.
From BBC
But her husband, President Emmanuel Macron, has been criticised for his own profligate spending.
From BBC
Americans have long been among the world’s most profligate tippers.
From Los Angeles Times
“Generally the criticism of owning a hot tub is it is a profligate use of energy,” he says.
From BBC
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