profligately

Examples

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• Living profligately, she would often buy the latest fashion without considering her budget.

• "But did he not profligately destroy things for which he had no use?"

  Fiction book (1994)

• So environmental misery is largely caused by rich people consuming profligately, unnecessarily and, and profligately.

• But I will confess that I've begun living quite profligately.

  Blog text (32)

• Stunted, undersized, notwithstanding fleet of foot and fast of hand, yet boasting little power and, on the whole, essentially profligately dispensing puff with scarcely a hint of awe.

  Blog text (31)

• He spent money profligately on luxurious vacations, ignoring his debt.

• The company profligately allocated resources to extravagant office parties instead of necessary improvements.

Synonyms

R

recklessly

vsprofligately

30 4.6

In a way that shows no care about danger or the results

includes wasteful luxury and immoral indulgence as well

I

irresponsibly

vsprofligately

12 4.2

Showing no care for the bad results of what you do

adds excessive spending and immoral conduct to that carelessness

E

extravagantly

vsprofligately

7 6.0

Using or spending much more than needed

adds reckless immorality beyond mere excess

U

unconscionably

vsprofligately

2 8.9

In a way that is very unfair or too harsh

pairs extreme excess with reckless immorality rather than only unfairness

U

unscrupulously

vsprofligately

1 8.0

In a way that ignores what is right or wrong

combines reckless extravagance with immoral indulgence beyond lacking scruples

D

dissolutely

vsprofligately

• Formal

9.6

In a way that shows someone ignores moral rules and seeks pleasure

emphasizes reckless extravagance as well as immoral behavior

P

prodigally

vsprofligately

9.1

To spend or give a lot in a very wasteful way

adds moral licentiousness and general recklessness beyond wasteful spending

R

reprehensibly

vsprofligately

8.1

In a way that deserves a lot of blame for bad behavior

describes blameworthy wasteful and immoral behavior, not only criticism

Antonyms

M

moderately

47 2.8

To some degree but not very much

C

conservatively

17 5.0

In a careful way that avoids risk

How Wasteful

profligately

• Formal

1 9.9

extravagantly

7 6.0

frugally

3 4.4

economically

21 3.3

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology