Profligate is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PROFLIGATE in dictionary:

VERB:
• To drive away; to overcome.
NOUN:
• one who is profligate
• a licentious, dissolute person
• An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person.
• a dissolute man in fashionable society
• a recklessly extravagant consumer
ADJECTIVE:
• debauched; rashly extravagant
• recklessly extravagant or wasteful in the use of resources
• licentious; dissolute
• Overthrown; beaten; conquered.
• Broken down in respect of rectitude, principle, virtue, or decency; openly and shamelessly immoral or vicious; dissolute; as, profligate man or wretch.
• recklessly wasteful
• unrestrained by convention or morality
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• wildly extravagant

Words related to PROFLIGATE

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Words that contain PROFLIGATE

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How to use PROFLIGATE in a sentence

• The profligate and sentimental infidel Rousseau had died a couple of years before, and had been buried at Ermenonville, in the park of the Count de Girardin.
• The psalm was sung amidst the curses and quarrelling of hundreds of the most abandoned and profligate of mankind.
• His profligate extravagance, his love of sybarite luxury, required a larger resource than the petty schemes which enrich smaller men.
• Any one who has a valuable patent can profit by it only by a constant fight with some of the most profligate and, at the same time, most shrewd members of society.
• From one source we learn that one of the teachers died, and the other having turned out profligate, no instructors could be found to continue the work.
• In these pages appear some of the noblest and some of the most profligate characters, and all are perfectly typical.
• Unquestionably the late RULE surpasses, in its profligate contempt of constitutional obligation, any act in the annals of the Federal Government.
• Nor does he any longer suppose that the unbelieving son must necessarily be a profligate.
• I told her how wretched you were, and that the only thing that made you miserable was about her, because you were afraid she would think you so profligate, and all that.
• In the peace Turkey gained a new lease of life from the powers, and, profligate that she was, the promise of more millions of foreign money.
• The hero, a profligate, after abusing all the advantages of fortune, commits a forgery, and is executed.
• Francesco Cenci was a most profligate Roman noble, who had four sons and one daughter, all of whom he treated with abominable cruelty.
• I write this, that you may prevent her from throwing herself away upon an impostor and profligate.
• If Miss Gourlay be, as I fear she is, averse to this union, do not sacrifice her to ambition and a profligate.
• Every mother has said it who ever by her hope against hope for some profligate, protested for a love deeper and wider than that of society.
• One of the most profligate monarchs that ever disgraced the page of sacred history, sat upon the throne of Judah.
• She could make him believe anything, that the profligate queen was a Madonna.
• The profligate conduct of Queen Eleanor, who accompanied her royal consort, led to serious political conditions.
• The superfluous pleasures of marriage are not only profligate, but involve an immense loss to the man, as I will now demonstrate.
• And there are others again, so profligate, as not to care to whom they communicate it.
• Of the profligate nobles at this time none was more profligate than L.
• She had often seen Paine before, a drunken profligate, wandering about the streets, from whom the children always fled in terror.
• The conduct of the parliament was profligate and atrocious.
• Wildeve is not a profligate man, any more than I am an improper woman.
• The good King Josiah had been called to rest, and his profligate son Jehoiakim was on the throne.
• In passing the Fati, a recreation-ground near the city, a view is obtained of the amusements of the rich and the profligate.

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