How to Use profligate in a Sentence

profligate

adjective

• She was very profligate in her spending.
• But that runs the risk that the prudent pay for the profligate.
  — The Economist, 1 Feb. 2018
• The price tag probably isn’t what gave the profligate Trump pause.
  — Benjamin Hart, Daily Intelligencer, 6 Mar. 2018
• Price has for years cast himself as a deficit hawk, determined to save the country from its profligate ways.
  — Gregory Krieg, CNN, 29 Sep. 2017
• Part of the problem was that a fireplace was a profligate way to heat a house, since so much heat vanished up the chimney.
  — Clive Thompson, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 July 2022
• The men were serious about their work, and perhaps even about their fishing, but profligate in their leisure-time habits.
  — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2023
• Obama is the most profligate deficit & debt spender in our nation’s history.
  — Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2019
• Though the size of the new budget is profligate, the intent of this fiscal efforts is not wrong-headed.
  — Paul Swartz, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2022
• Don’t stop until killing a Jew becomes too expensive for even the rich and profligate man.
  — David L. Ulin, latimes.com, 8 Sep. 2017
• Even so, what can be said is that Americans are hardly being profligate.
  — Justin Lahart, WSJ, 18 Jan. 2023
• It was caused by decades of corruption and profligate spending by ruling politicians.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 10 Aug. 2023
• But turtle experts worry that profligate collection of wild turtles could put them on a risky path.
  — Joel Sartore, National Geographic, 10 Nov. 2016
• The problem is, short of turning off neighborhood taps, there are few effective ways to cut off profligate users.
  — Aryn Baker, TIME.com, 8 Feb. 2018
• This time, though, the damage was not caused by profligate spending but by an unforeseen global health crisis.
  — John Ainger, Bloomberg.com, 28 Apr. 2020
• Names that evoke images of profligate lifestyles, miserable fates, or even fascism.
  — John Pearley Huffman, Car and Driver, 7 July 2023
• That the slur cuck casts white men as victims aligns with the dicta of whiteness, which seek to alchemize one’s profligate sins into virtue.
  — Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic, 7 Sep. 2017
• Most obviously, that is because with each profligate cycle, the debt burden has risen.
  — The Economist, 21 Oct. 2017
• The extravagance of these offerings lay not in spectacle but in the profligate use of time.
  — Molly Fischer, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2022
• Brown cops to becoming a profligate spender in a company full of them, which brings us to one of the many economics lessons within his book.
  — John Tamny, Forbes, 18 May 2022
• The Schuyler mansion was a house of horrors for slaves, yet his profligate daughters, and Hamilton, went along with it.
  — Ishmael Reed, Harper's Magazine, 15 Sep. 2020
• Both sides had chances in a quieter second half but Brentford especially was profligate in front of goal.
  — ABC News, 27 Apr. 2026
• As always with Östlund, his most profligate flights of fancy tack close enough to reality to ring queasily true.
  — Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2022
• One day in the pristine country’s zero-tolerance would scare straight the most profligate Wawa-bag tosser.
  — Ronnie Polaneczky, Philly.com, 2 Mar. 2018
• Democrats used to worry about charges of profligate spending leveled against them by Republicans.
  — David M. Drucker, Washington Examiner, 30 Mar. 2021
• Coming into the year, for example, Citi didn’t appear to be overly profligate.
  — Telis Demos, WSJ, 13 Oct. 2020
• The state’s profligate spender-in-chief believes money thrown to key constituencies may quench the rage of millions of voters who want to remove him from office.
  — Lance Christensen, National Review, 14 May 2021
• The author, a profligate spender and dapper dresser, relinquished the valuable to his tailor as payment.
  — Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2022
• In their view, governments and central banks breached a covenant with their citizens not to debase the currency through profligate spending.
  — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 18 Jan. 2023
• There are plenty of reasons to cut the Pentagon’s budget, but its track record of profligate spending is among the most obvious.
  — Elliott Negin, Scientific American, 14 Sep. 2020
• The chickens are coming home to roost at profligate startup investor SoftBank Group.
  — Adam Lashinsky, Fortune, 23 Mar. 2020