profligate

Example Sentences

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He has long believed that large-scale asset purchases should only be used during crisis and in moderation due to the risk that they can be used to fund a profligate Treasury.

From Barron's • Feb. 1, 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

L.A.’s gleefully profligate, sport-altering franchise is on the verge of learning a costly, ancient baseball lesson:

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 30, 2025

The seamers ran in down the slope from the Pavilion End, spinner Prabath Jayasuriya plugged away from the Nursery End and England were profligate.

From BBC • Aug. 29, 2024

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