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
Another endless but masterly dissection of the malignant tedium that grips contemporary Italy's empty-souled profligates.
From Time Magazine Archive
True, there were no Britons, Germans, Russians, Italians or Latin Americans, no glittering titles, no lavish profligates.
From Time Magazine Archive
And certainly no chambermaid ever rehearsed her own colloquies with these vile profligates in a style of thinking more abject than did at this period the female majesty of England.
From The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg by Hogg, James
