profligates
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Discreet to the point of evasive, they have tended to greet press inquiries with silence, or with expressions of sorrow that some observers might damn them as profligates, or with a harrumph of how-did-you-get-this-number disgruntlement.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 14, 2019
The legend of Don Juan was invented by a Spanish monk in the 16th Century nominally in order to frighten young profligates into piety.
From Time Magazine Archive
Working above Mistress Humphrey's print shop in Piccadilly where his etchings sold for 18 pence, Gillray had scorched the court of George III with his acid portrayals of spendthrift profligates and pompous politicians.
From Time Magazine Archive
Another endless but masterly dissection of the malignant tedium that grips contemporary Italy's empty-souled profligates.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was a squalid and miserable life among ruined gamblers, spendthrifts, profligates, broken down merchants, bankrupt tradesmen, and helpless women of all classes.
From The History of London by Sir Walter Besant
