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profligate
adjective as in immoral, corrupt
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.
But her husband, President Emmanuel Macron, has been criticised for his own profligate spending.
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.
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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