Example sentences for: profligate

How can you use “profligate” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Cixi has been blamed ever since for her profligate and selfish ways, combined with her Machiavellian rise from concubine to Empress, popularly held to be the cause of China’s weakness and the fall of the last dynasty.

  • A posthumous profile of Dodi Fayed says he was childish, profligate, unreliable, paranoid, and drug-using.

  • Writers, of course, are nowhere near as profligate as photographers.

  • The Times was profligate, editorially bold, and profitable.

  • Even when the Big Guy himself is not explicitly mentioned--and he's mentioned plenty--the current crop of tabloid offerings brims with so many transcendent crises (life-threatening illnesses, brushes with sudden death, ruminations on mortality, profligate lives steered straight and narrow) that it feels like one long episode of Touched by an Angel .


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