profligates

Example Sentences

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And as I would handle these, so you, in like Manner, would take to Task those vile Profligates, who, copying after your Originals, should at any Time endeavour to shelter themselves under my Wings.

From A Letter to Dion by Viner, Jacob

Profligates crop up everywhere, even among writers, I understand.

From Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays by Various

True, it may be so: for, in the examples which have been adduced, there will be found neither Suicides, nor Gamesters, nor Profligates.

From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall

These abandoned Profligates raise up Issue in every Quarter of the Town, and very often, for a valuable Consideration, father it upon the Church-warden.

From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Addison, Joseph