Nature is, above all, profligate. Don't believe them when they tell you how economical and thrifty nature is, whose leaves return to the soil. From LearnThat.org. [Annie Dillard]
Rendell to task for what he calls profligate spending. From Wordnik.com. [Phillies Zone] Reference
Over the last few years there has been a tremendous turnaround in profligate government spending. From Wordnik.com. [Annual Financial Forum] Reference
Puffington was not what the old ladies call a profligate young man. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour] Reference
Konigsmarck, whom the envoy Stepney described as a profligate adventurer. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures on Modern history] Reference
Dubai has long been known as the profligate "younger brother" to more conservative Abu Dhabi. From Wordnik.com. [Christian Science Monitor | Top Stories] Reference
His profligate is a man without taste; and his coquettes are insolent and profoundly revolting. From Wordnik.com. [Thoughts on Man: His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries] Reference
His youth, sunk in profligate waste. From Wordnik.com. [Letter 423] Reference
I was kind of profligate with this and read it as soon as I got hold of it. From Wordnik.com. [New Josipovici « Tales from the Reading Room] Reference
This kind of profligate spending is wrong no matter what the politicans and economists say. From Wordnik.com. [Uncle Sam is $1 trillion in the hole] Reference
As Broon has always had 'profligate' as his middle name, he knows no other way than to keep spending. From Wordnik.com. [Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?] Reference
Well, I guess its pretty easy to scold us for our "profligate" spending. From Wordnik.com. [AroundTheCapitol.com] Reference
There was, indeed, a kind of profligate equity in giving to women the same licentious power. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12)] Reference
The upside benefited German exporters; the downside is now being laid entirely at the door of "profligate" nations. From Wordnik.com. [Stop Me Before I Vote Again] Reference
Argus terms Chesapeake's spending spree "profligate" and worries about the toll it's taking on the company's balance sheet -- and so do I. From Wordnik.com. [This Just In: Upgrades and Downgrades (BP, CEO, CHK, COP, CVX, KMP, XOM)] Reference
"profligate" spending in the past, and/or a public sector living beyond its means. From Wordnik.com. [Signs of the Times] Reference
This kind of profligate spending by monied special interests is exactly the kind of thing you railed about during your campaign.). From Wordnik.com. [Effort by rich Clinton supporters to finance Michigan re-vote actually undermined the re-vote] Reference
But I was determined to change my profligate ways. From Wordnik.com. [Freegan Ride] Reference
Sure, it's profligate, but it's not taxpayers 'money. From Wordnik.com. ['Waterworld': It Floats] Reference
Venezuela's profligate fiscal policy is a case in point. From Wordnik.com. [Latin Leaders Follow No Boss] Reference
Unchecked, Wall Street had become corrupt and profligate. From Wordnik.com. [Reversing the ‘Big Bang’] Reference
Even as gas prices soar, we refuse to curb our profligate ways. From Wordnik.com. [American Beat: Scenes From A Fledgling Movement] Reference
For too long have international agencies gone about their own profligate ways. From Wordnik.com. [Paging Globodoc] Reference
This sort of profligate spending in these economic time seems somehow perverse. From Wordnik.com. [Suzanne Langlois: $9,118,582.14 ... and Counting] Reference
This profligate and unproductive "" loan '' program has put China's banks in peril. From Wordnik.com. [Starting To Feel The Pinch] Reference
One culprit is all that seemingly profligate spending on high-tech during the '90s boom. From Wordnik.com. [MEN AT OVERWORK] Reference
Like the United States, Brazil was a restless New World frontier, creative and profligate. From Wordnik.com. [The Perils Of Abundance] Reference
Most investors believe that interest rates are heading higher because of profligate government spending. From Wordnik.com. [Why Treasuries Might Still Be Your Best Buy] Reference
Aside from the profligate financial sector, big business behaved quite responsibly over the past five years. From Wordnik.com. [Big Business Is Not to Blame] Reference
NORTH AMERICA Wealthy and profligate, its slow-growing population takes the lion's share of world resources. From Wordnik.com. [The Future Is Here] Reference
Why can Rasheda Stevenson, a Largo High senior, who worked 20 hours a week last year as a cashier, be so profligate?. From Wordnik.com. [Too Old, Too Fast?] Reference
On the other hand, just offering bundles in college aid would have seemed like profligate "tax and spend" liberalism. From Wordnik.com. ['Ask Not'--'90S Style] Reference
With his tasseled loafers and Italian suits, the brash, big-spending Guber came to epitomize Hollywood at its most profligate. From Wordnik.com. [Sony's Mr. Fixit] Reference
This analysis had some merit early on, when the profligate young president wantonly seduced and abandoned his political allies. From Wordnik.com. [The Two Mr. Clintons] Reference
Only when men are profligate with their affection while trying to keep a safe distance, she adds, is the e-mail officially inept. From Wordnik.com. [Plain Text: The Romantic E-mail of the Inept Man] Reference
If the voters see mostly tax increases and wasteful spending in the bargain, Clinton will be dismissed as just another profligate pol. From Wordnik.com. [Clinton's Revolution] Reference
What's more, Lula browbeat Congress into passing some vital constitutional reforms, starting with the profligate social-security system. From Wordnik.com. [Lula's Balancing Act] Reference
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