profligately

Example Sentences

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The passionate and profligately gifted Irish maximalist Colum McCann, whose novel “Let the Great World Spin” won the 2009 National Book Award, likes to use nouns as verbs.

From Washington Post • Mar. 10, 2020

If I had to choose between spending really effectively on climate change or spending profligately on missions to the moon, well, I’d be hard-pressed to choose the moon.

From Scientific American • Jun. 10, 2019

Too often, we precisely monitor the former and profligately praise the latter.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 4, 2016

There were four Swansea players in the penalty area when Matteo Darmian crossed from the left and not one of them could get near the Belgian, who profligately volleyed wide.

From The Guardian • Nov. 6, 2016

But if we will get down closer and examine what we are doing, we will find that we are living profligately and squandering our heritage in every possible manner.

From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 1 March 1906 by Various