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.

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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.
Certainly not enough to change an energy-profligate lifestyle.
'profligate,' 'brutal,' 'godless,' 'blighting' -- does not each involve research, investigation, comparison, analysis, deliberation, a heavy tax upon the intellectual resources of the church if any result worth having is to be obtained? Preaching and Paganism
He chose movie scripts profligately, appearing in lousy films just to earn money for his expensive enthusiasms.
Robert Melville, who appeared to have been using some soothing language — “No! no! no! I tell thee, no! I will place a petard against the door rather than be baulked by a profligate woman, and bearded by an insolent footboy.” The Abbot
What is more, Italy's history of lax economic management has come to be associated in Germany with a cultural stereotype: Of profligate Mediterraneans who are more interested in leading la dolce vita than in gathering their nuts for winter. Italy's Draghi Aims to Ease German Doubt
Amy, in her tiny spangled trapeze-artist's costume, was awed by the profligate splendour of it all. THE WHITE DOVE
White, blue, purple, and scarlet were the colors of the gods, priests, profligates, saints and monarchs, either in combination or singularly.
The small family firms and municipal bus companies were inefficient and badly run and drivers were overpaid by profligate local councils.
He was an out-and-out profligate, darting from one partner to the next.
Though initially aimed at profligate Italy, the actual culprits were Germany and France, which have been running big deficits over the last three years as their economies flirted with recession.
She is well-known for her profligate spending habits.
Should not those on the same income who can live more frugally pay less tax than the profligate?
His Lordship is not quite so profligate of his money,' said Thackeray drily. CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
We owe it to our children and our children's children and to those in developing countries disadvantaged today by our profligate and extravagant Western lifestyles to be more environmentally responsible.
It was believed Germans were afraid of pooling their successful monetary sovereignty with putative profligates such as, perhaps, Italy.
It is not: the frugal depend on the profligate.
The profligate US government, it was said, could not finance its deficits from the meager savings of its people, thereby necessitating borrowing from abroad.
Why are the statistics about education debt, house prices, high rents and job insecurity left out of the picture, while the armchair-theories about profligate hedonists get so much airplay?
By so doing, these programs both protect the profligate against the effects of their myopia and insure that everyone contributes to helping such persons.
Irvine and Rita cleverly cashed in on Glaswegians' profligate delight in dressing up and swanking it up.
The law, while it assumes the guardianship of youth by suppressing immorality, still permits these wantons to rove, uncontrolled, among the virtuous as well as the profligate.
He found to his amusement that the profligate were by many degrees duller than the pious, but that the most tedious of all were the persons who preached promiscuity, and called their system of "pigging" the "New The Hill of Dreams
This profligate recipe for survival is used by many animals of many kinds.
This is what happens when you combine profligate spending with a complete lack of interest in balancing your checkbook.
National Liar, Premier Minister of the Province, and First Juggler of its finances: -- a profligate in public in the name of the Church -- in secret in the name of Free-Thought -- _beau diseur_ -- demagogue of the rabble and chieftain of the Cave. The Young Seigneur Or, Nation-Making
Dismissing conservation as a low priority is dangerous in that it will encourage a profligate use of natural resources and a lack of concern about the current human destruction of the Earth.
I'm lazy and profligate by nature, and have expensive tastes by nurture. THE SEASON OF LILLIAN DAWES
German public opinion is firmly set against the public purse to help the profligate Greeks.
Rather than the rest of Europe's rates collapsing towards Germany's borrowing cost, Germany's rates should have risen in recognition of the fact that it was essentially "backstopping" profligate borrowers. Mourn The Deutsche Mark, Buy The Turkish Lira
Paine, the chief writer of the Satanic faction, was a bankrupt staymaker, and a notorious profligate: his pamphlet had only the effect of making the public protest against its abominations; he was prosecuted, was forced to leave the country, and finally died in beggary in America. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847
Lilly blasted a deflected shot against the bar from long range as the Americans continued to press but their profligate finishing almost cost them dearly.
She knows that, if her countryfolk were livid at the prospect of their cash being used to bail out profligate Greece, they would be positively incandescent were she to soften her stance on Turkey. Turkey Knocks: Will EU Let It Enter?
May Heaven signalize its vengeance, in the face of all the world, upon the most abandoned and profligate of men! — Clarissa Harlowe
My example of an immediate man-made global environmental crisis is the one created by the profligate use of chlorinated-fluorocarbon refrigerants - the gas used in refrigerators.
Rathbone therefore found herself cast in the role of the profligate American, heedless of the future and neglectful of the past.
All other animals are domestic animals; man alone is ever undomestic, either as a profligate or a monk. Orthodoxy
It is the profligate consumer who has kept the economy afloat since 2000.
A persistent critic of profligate government, he now has his chance to trim the deficit.
Similarly Americans have been profligate in the handling of mineral resources.
They are profligately displaying their power, including the power to abuse the House's tenuous-at-best policing of itself.
She is well-known for her profligate spending habits.
Will he not again meet wicked men in the decuries? will he not again tamper with those men who have received lands? will he not again seek those who have been banished? will he not, in short, be Marcus Antonius; to whom, on the occasion of every commotion, there will be a rush of all profligate citizens? The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4
A sadly appropriate analogy would be the profligate and highly overindebted consumer who has finally reached the end of his rope.
However, they are also getting cheap household and other labor, plus an excuse to avoid cutting back on profligate consumption and waste.
The implication of this is that the more profligate councils will not be re-elected.
Sweden have not forsaken their past quite so profligately.
McMahon, best known as the avuncular second banana to Johnny Carson on the "Tonight Show," died at age 86, also in dire financial straits after profligate spending. Undefined
It has been observed that ‘Even some of the worst hillbillies, drunks, profligates, and ex-cons piously sing gospel songs on their albums’.
Amy, in her tiny spangled trapeze-artist's costume, was awed by the profligate splendour of it all. THE WHITE DOVE
A report upon ABC 702 local radio yesterday estimated the total debt carried by the US govt. now to be around 8-9 trillion; yes, TRILLION!! courtesy of both the Bush and Obama administration's profligate spending upon war and baling out crowned financial criminals!! Politics as Usual
The profligates that biologists call stem cells have their own secret for staying young: run away and hide in a place far from the machinations of transcription factors with an eye on your genes.
Such fundamental change was necessary, said the summiteers, because a profligate humanity consumes too much, breeds too much, and pollutes too much, setting the stage for a global ecological catastrophe.
Unfortunately, the extent of the downswing will be proportional to boom-time excesses, and the profligate consumer sector will be forced to retrench.
The combined loss of possession and position is profligate to the point of wasteful.
Savage as a Red Indian, gambler and profligate, a man without morals, whose vengeance was never glutted and who stamped on the faces of all who opposed him — oh, yes, she knew all the hard names he had been called. Chapter XIV
Markets set borrowing rates, voters turn out politicians who push them too far, and plans to land with hobnailed boots on profligate debtor nations founder on two facts. Borrowers of Euroland are Proving Einstein's Theory of Insanity Right
Why, runs the argument, should these countries deny themselves electricity, heat and transport simply to support the profligate consumption of rich Europeans, Australians and Americans?
The poem satirizes merrily enough, being windy and rhapsodic, prostrate and profligate, swoony and bitter, and attacks various people.
Samson is the profligate, and it is perhaps because he visits a harlot in Judg 16: 1 – 3 that some readers conclude that Delilah is also a harlot (the phrase “and after that he fell in love with a woman …” [Judg 16: 4] also links the two women). Delilah: Bible.
Profligate budget rules led to the greatest expansion of an entitlement since the Great Society.
She is well-known for her profligate spending habits.
It is possible that the Arabic word balas, a profligate, wicked person, may have influenced Muhammad in the formation of the word Eblis. The Koran (Al-Qur'an)
New word, invented by me; combines Trough as in pigs, with Profligate. IRA Demand BBC Apology over Jacko Jibe
In Northern Europe, they'll deny you a discharge if they think you ran up the original debt in a profligate or immoral fashion.
Manifestly, America's bubble economy of the late 1990s had its center in the most profligate consumer borrowing and spending binge in history.
Would the relevant ancestors have been thrifty ants, squirrels and bees rather than the profligate grasshoppers and elephant seals appealed to here?
Korea, he says, must tackle the environmental crisis brought on by its profligate consumption of fossil fuels.
A rice garden profligate with mussels, squid, clams, shrimp, sausage and chicken, as well as peas, carrots and piquillo peppers, it was a delight.
Britain, along with Italy, France and Germany, comes in the middle of the tipping league, neither profligate nor parsimonious.
I'm slowly catching up on lost sleep and regaining the energies that I've had to spend so profligately these past few weeks.
The recent support for the party of Pim Fortuyn in the Netherlands has failed to quell the spirit of profligate immorality endemic to that country.
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
Nor can it give encour-agement for a woman of virtue and religion to marry a profligate in hopes of reclaiming him. Sir Charles Grandison
Yardeni -- famous for coining the phrase "bond vigilantes" to describe investors who punish profligate governments -- predicts that global growth of about 5 percent this year will help spur a 15 percent rebound in the MSCI World Index of developed-nation equities from 1279.69 yesterday, and a increase in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index of stocks to 1,500 by year-end from 1273.72. BusinessWeek.com -- Top News
The painter's orphic sleight of hand was abetted by arcane titles that conjure profligate aristocrats, sexual libertines, adepts of the dark arts and drugged esthetes.
The mayor also promises less services, and chides everyone for all our profligate ways in the past ten years.
It is perfectly practical for steam, when it shall possess a respectable mechanical adaptation to canal duty; that is, when it shall not be so shamefully profligate in expenditures of power -- _to double the average speed of horses, or lessen the general average of ten days on the canal to five days_, of which the down trips may overrun and the up trips fall short, as with horse average. History of Steam on the Erie Canal
The government should also restore a uniform business rate poundage across the UK and sort out profligate local councils - we have some of the highest council taxes in the land in Glasgow and Edinburgh but probably the worst services.
Their rising greatness, to the merited disgrace and death of Piers de Gavestone and his profligate minions! and their final exaltation to the highest honours of the British peerage, which they have now enjoyed for five hundred years, to the strong hand and unblenching heart with which they have always welcomed the assaults of their most powerful enemies! The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 354, January 31, 1829
Olema and men of valiancy and that whereinto thou hast cast thyself of calamity so that there is neither power nor strength left in thee to repel whoso shall assail thee, more by token that thou transgressest and orderest thyself tyrannously and profligately The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Their profligate lifestyle resulted in bankruptcy.
The region's profligate economies will struggle for longer as austerity kicks in.
You might think the opposition would savage such a profligate waste of taxpayers' money.
Those with the wealth to engage in profligate energy consumption contribute to the storms that kill and displace hundreds of thousands of people living on coastal lowlands in Bangladesh and elsewhere.
But early election polls revealed that not only did most Kentuckians not know about Williams' profligate spending, but as of this June --afterthe GOP gubernatorial primary -- nearly 30 percent of Kentucky votersstill didn't even know enough about Williams to form an opinion. Jonathan Miller: In Defense of the Indefensible: The Value of Truthful Negative Ads
She is well-known for her profligate spending habits.
Some of these disasters, such as climate change, are the direct result of our profligate use of cheap energy.
The range of responsibilities and duties of the genteel woman revealed by these documents challenges the notion of the frivolous or profligate female consumer portrayed in history.
A prayer as full of cruelty against a most peaceful and valuable part of the community, as it was hypocritical in calling a debauched and profligate man [Charles the Second] 'our religious king. ' Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02
Nature will force us to become less profligate in our habits, and less extravagant in our consumption: her dictates can be evaded, but never escaped. levitra Says: Matthew Yglesias » Refrigerated Beach Sand?
It is interesting to observe that so many of the best examples are almost entirely glazed - the all-glass facade, once regarded as synonymous with the profligate use of energy, is now seen as the best hope.
Lydia is a girl who follows exotic things, handsome man and is somehow a little profligate.
The profligate and unindicted use of antibiotics is breeding new resistant organisms. Times, Sunday Times
Apprehensive for both our safeties from the villany of such a daring and profligate contriver, I must call upon you, my dear, to resolve upon taking legal vengeance of the infernal wretch. Clarissa Harlowe
Of course, Washington's profligate political class eagerly engaged in deficit spending to provide a surfeit of public-sector debt to close this circle.
George III's eldest son was a notorious profligate and in this essay (1792), Gillray captured his dissoluteness with acid precision.
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
In a state of things holding out any encouragement to that most audacious and profligate of all breaches of trust, even this entireness of constitutional dependence is but Representative Government
The profligate US government, it was said, could not finance its deficits from the meager savings of its people, thereby necessitating borrowing from abroad.
His Lordship is not quite so profligate of his money,' said Thackeray drily. CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
A persistent critic of profligate government, he now has his chance to trim the deficit.

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