profligately

Example Sentences

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“He confided it, displayed it, spread it profligately, even expanded it to connect it with your life. He would settle for nothing less.”

From Washington Post • Jun. 12, 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

Though death-still, it has a voice which calls ceaselessly to those human hearts tuned to its messages: hostile and harsh, it draws and urges; repellent, it profligately awards health and wealth; inviting, it kills.

From The Desert Valley by Gregory, Jackson