profligate

Example Sentences

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He thinks humanity is engaged in a “plunder” of nature “while our profligate use of land and energy continues to ruin our planet and threaten our existence.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

Abhijit Surya at Capital Economics said however that he was not worried that Takaichi would be "fiscally profligate".

From Barron's • Feb. 5, 2026

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.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025

But her husband, President Emmanuel Macron, has been criticised for his own profligate spending.

From BBC • Sep. 15, 2024

Although he possessed extraordinary reserves of energy, he’d been profligate with those reserves, and by the time he got to Camp Four they were nearly depleted.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer