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profligate🔊

Inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly.

📑 Synonyms: extravagant wasteful prodigal

Immoral; abandoned to vice.

📑 Synonyms: immoral licentious
💬 Quotations
Again, had my title borne, 'Waverley, a Romance from the German,' what head so obtuse as not to image forth a profligate abbot, an oppressive duke, a secret and mysterious association of Rosycrucians and Illuminati, with all their properties of black cowls, caverns, daggers, electrical machines, trap-doors, and dark-lanterns?

(obsolete) Routed, overcome, driven away.

(obsolete) Overthrown, ruined.

An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person.

An overly wasteful or extravagant individual.

📑 Synonyms: wastrel

(obsolete) To drive away; to overcome.