The lady had been moving money around and spending it profligately. From Wordnik.com. [Money, Money, Money]
We use oil profligately; we should certainly be able to do very much better. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 18, 2004] Reference
We have profligately used up a lot of those assets and lived well in the process. From Wordnik.com. [Robert K. Lifton: Jobs, Deficits and the Coming Test of America's Democracy] Reference
Will the gargantuan federal budget, then, be even more profligately managed in the years to come?. From Wordnik.com. [In Congress, Business as Usual] Reference
The issue which the evangelicals profligately put on the table, and which Romney inadequately answered, is this. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Voting, Religion, and Public Officials:] Reference
It's thanks to Linda and the depth of her ... her profundity that means pornography proliferates so profligately. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-03-01] Reference
The oil they'd spread so profligately made the flames burn hotter, and the wood of the shed was old, weathered, probably dry. From Wordnik.com. [Werehunter]
But go ahead and assume the couple live paycheck to paycheck (however profligately) and never put a dime away for the future. From Wordnik.com. [Straw figures on taxes blur true picture] Reference
However, one has to wonder at the wisdom of the company directors who are paying out their shareholders' money so profligately. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-08-01] Reference
The oil they'd spread so profligately made the flames burn hotter, and the wood of the shed was old, weathered, and probably dry. From Wordnik.com. [Exile's Honor]
Many new Internet companies also continue chugging along, having not spent as profligately as start-ups did during the late 1990s boom. From Wordnik.com. [In Silicon Valley,] Reference
On Thanksgiving weekend 2006, I am thankful -- and humbled and embarrassed -- to number among those who "consume transport" as profligately as I do. From Wordnik.com. [Consuming transport] Reference
He's worried there won't be money to spend, profligately, on the things he wants, because of this crazy idea that people should stop dying from lack of health insurance. From Wordnik.com. [TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads] Reference
A team that profligately dumped Richard Seymour at the start of the season has surrendered. From Wordnik.com. [FOXSports.com News] Reference
Dark Skies initiative to reduce the amount of light we profligately throw into the night sky. From Wordnik.com. [Out of the Cradle] Reference
It spends profligately and they know deep down that they and their children will be left with the bill. From Wordnik.com. [The Razor] Reference
Instead, we're doing it profligately and without any real thought or debate about the costs and benefits. From Wordnik.com. [AGORAVOX - The Citizen Media] Reference
And also, you need to make sure you don't need to be taken advantage of again and not spend so profligately. From Wordnik.com. [Jezebel] Reference
Consumers need new good paying jobs, or must again borrow profligately, if they are to power a robust recovery. From Wordnik.com. [SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page] Reference
At any rate, English, ignoring the injunction to "neither a borrower nor a lender be," has been both, profligately. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 2] Reference
This, indeed, has more or less been long the case, but I really think never so impudently and so profligately as now. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2] Reference
The stimulus package handed tens of billions of dollars to states that spent profligately during the prosperity years. From Wordnik.com. [QandO] Reference
Not getting an agreement from the other G20 leaders to waste money they don't have profligately on a worldwide stimulus plan; and. From Wordnik.com. [Common Sense Political Thought] Reference
The profligately pungent plants grow leaves with a denser dotting of breathing pores called stomata, Haak and his colleagues found. From Wordnik.com. [Science News / Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, News Items and Book Reviews] Reference
He and his lieutenants leaked profligately about the alleged msideeds, professional and personal, of the targets of their investigations. From Wordnik.com. [Dealbreaker] Reference
Not spending profligately but getting the rewards for 30-40 years of work - now we're told that's just not possible, it's a big socialist government program. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference
Washington - Humanity would need five Earths to produce the resources needed if everyone lived as profligately as Americans, according to a report issued on Tuesday. From Wordnik.com. [IOL: News] Reference
I would add that even if it’s the right thing there’s no excuse for profligately wasting humanlife. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » The Vietnam Comparison — A Closer Look At The Numbers:] Reference
Instead, we’re doing it profligately and without any real thought or debate about the costs and benefits. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Muslims Want Us Out of the Middle East] Reference
Otherwise I’m not sure how I’m living any more profligately than our parents, but I know I’m not saving like they were. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Evaluating The Two-Income Trap Hypothesis:] Reference
No, a lot of people loved the idea that we should not throw their tax money about profligately and we kept firing up Concorde instead. (. From Wordnik.com. [Ronnie loves Maggie..true] Reference
I had flung magic ruthlessly, profligately. From Wordnik.com. [Renegade's Magic]
But to be spending profligately when you're saying you're just one of the people - well, that's just bad marketing. ". From Wordnik.com. [Macleans.ca] Reference
They tax and they spend profligately. From Wordnik.com. [Citizen Tom] Reference
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