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profligate

adjective as in wasteful

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Last spring Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, at the time the team’s largest shareholder, was so unhappy with the board’s profligate spending on nonsoccer things he pushed the board’s other five members to enlist the help of a New York investment bank in finding a new controlling owner.

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

From BBC

The seamers ran in down the slope from the Pavilion End, spinner Prabath Jayasuriya plugged away from the Nursery End and England were profligate.

From BBC

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

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