profligate
praw fli gayt
- n a dissolute man in fashionable society
- n a recklessly extravagant consumer
- s recklessly wasteful
- s unrestrained by convention or morality
- Price spurts once associated with profligate banana republics are now common to North America and Western Europe.
- The elder Gulbenkian, as miserly as his son was profligate, employed Nubar for a time without salary.
- Thirteen years ago, when tubby, profligate Sultan Ahmad, Shah of Persia, was debauching along the French Riviera French newsorgans came out with the old French proverb: La mdt .