profligates

In recent days, Republicans have declared that Democrats are the true fiscal profligates.

The losers among us are basement-dwellers; the cool ones are profligates who refuse to contemplate the future.

In Germany, meanwhile, Chancellor Angela Merkel is under pressure from those, including a new anti-euro party, who think she has too generously deployed their tax money to shore up Europe’s profligates.

Now even the IMF, high priest of budget discipline and scourge of profligates, is suggesting that Britain is too austere.

Not a few eminent men were sinecurists, peculators, profligates, and gamblers.