profligately

Example Sentences

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Bransfield spent profligately in other ways, too, according to the investigation.

From Washington Post • Jul. 23, 2019

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

It is related, that he who devised the oath of abjuration, profligately boasted, that he had framed a test which should 'damn one half of the nation, and starve the other.'

From Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776 by Hill, George Birkbeck Norman