profligate

Example Sentences

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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

Lately this entrenched symbol of American domestic life — verdant, weed-free and crisply mowed — has come under wider scrutiny as a profligate relic, out of sync with an ecologically conscious era.

From Seattle Times