adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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profligate spending of the taxpayer's money
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Although the sources are not profligate with information, it is possible to reach a more differentiated picture.
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At a time when vast tracts were unsettled, it was all too easy for governments to be profligate .
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How can we make our use of praise discriminating and therefore meaningful, rather than profligate or ritualized?
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In her day at the parsonage the consumption of butter and eggs was not so profligate .
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The implication of this is that the more profligate councils will not be re-elected.
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This profligate recipe for survival is used by many animals of many kinds.
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Would not that be threatened only by the advent of a Labour Government, with their profligate spending plans?