Example sentences for: profligate

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

  • The Giants say that other team owners are rooting against their scheme, because it calls into question the profligate public subsidies.

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

  • 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.

  • Asked what became of her first husband, a profligate actor, Anna remarks matter-of-factly: "It was thought he was murdered by the Nazis but what's the saying?


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