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profligate

adjective as in wasteful

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So, at both ends it is a case of minor details; mistakes at the back, profligate finishing up front.

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But her husband, President Emmanuel Macron, has been criticised for his own profligate spending.

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Americans have long been among the world’s most profligate tippers.

“Generally the criticism of owning a hot tub is it is a profligate use of energy,” he says.

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Lately this entrenched symbol of American domestic life — verdant, weed-free and crisply mowed — has come under wider scrutiny as a profligate relic, out of sync with an ecologically conscious era.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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