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profligate

/prof-li-git, -geyt/US // ˈprɒf lɪ gɪt, -ˌgeɪt //UK // (ˈprɒflɪɡɪt) //

挥霍无度,淫靡,淫荡,淫乱

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : utterly and shamelessly immoral or dissipated; thoroughly dissolute.
    • : recklessly prodigal or extravagant.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a profligate person.

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Examples

  • Each year, Coburn picked out examples like this study to suggest that the government was profligate with tax dollars.

  • NFTs have also been criticized for their profligate energy consumption, because they depend on a lot of computer power to encrypt their tokens.

  • That provision has already sparked substantial controversy among congressional Republicans, who have for months denounced aid for these governments as “bailouts” for profligate Democratic lawmakers.

  • As understandable from an industry perspective as this practice may have been, profligate use of these vital medications must end.

  • Moreover, the settlements rely for their subsistence on profligate funding and services provided by the state of Israel.

  • The same day, one of the most reckless and profligate home lenders reported far less impressive results.

  • During the cold war he was, in a sense, on the left—he regarded it as a profligate waste of American resources.

  • And nothing offends those sensibilities more profoundly than profligate spending and runaway debt.

  • But Pujol senior, though wondering where the devil he had fished all that money from, did not waste it in profligate revelry.

  • Thus died the gay and profligate Buckingham, in the thirty-seventh year of his age.

  • Later, his morals grew corrupt, and he lived a profligate life until he became a convert of the Manicheans at the age of nineteen.

  • But he was such a profligate in his morals, that his name cannot be mentioned with anything like tolerance.

  • He returned in the evenings from the haunts of vice, where he made her understand he had been, with manners so profligate!

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