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profligate

adjective as in wasteful

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“There, the football staff engaged in profligate spending for hotels, meals, and large amounts of alcohol. Assistant coaches raved that they were able to go drinking on ‘Bosco’s dime.’

Conservative Kit Malthouse said it would be "profoundly unfair if many, many years of careful stewardship were wiped out by being amalgamated with more profligate neighbouring councils".

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So, at both ends it is a case of minor details; mistakes at the back, profligate finishing up front.

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But her husband, President Emmanuel Macron, has been criticised for his own profligate spending.

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Americans have long been among the world’s most profligate tippers.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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