profligate

How To Use profligate In A Sentence

• How, in all good conscience, do we say ‘no’ to climate change refugees who point at our profligate use of energy that contributed to their plight?
• I'm lazy and profligate by nature, and have expensive tastes by nurture. THE SEASON OF LILLIAN DAWES
• It contains within itself a complete gradation from fashionable excellence to fashionable villany; from fashionable virtue to fashionable vice; fashionable ladies and gentlemen, fashionable pimps, demireps, and profligates. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843
• The only closed economy is the world economy, and if a U.S. default drives a rethink of all investment in government debt around the world, the “closed economy” will thrive as limited capital flows to the enterprising instead of the profligate. Learn To Love A U.S. Default
• When others consume profligately, it can actually harm society.
• While we humans leave our scents behind inadvertently, dogs are not only advertent, they are profligate with their scents. INSIDE OF A DOG
• This rough-around-the-edges high school dropout's profligate ways led to personal bankruptcy and, ultimately, some very dubious dealings with shady characters.
• They remained centres of the devotion of their flocks, and the "curates," hastily gathered, who took their places, were stigmatised as ignorant and profligate, while, as they were resisted, rabbled, and daily insulted, the country was full of disorder. A Short History of Scotland
• He chose movie scripts profligately, appearing in lousy films just to earn money for his expensive enthusiasms.
• Global warming and its consequences are almost certainly the result of our profligate fossil-fuel consumption, and it is already happening.