Sentence examples for most profligate from inspiring English sources

The most profligate users, however, remain the farmers.

The EU is the world's most profligate wielder of such subsidies.

America, it turns out, is not the most profligate provider of tax breaks.

Italy was the second most profligate, with 5.3%, down from 6.1%.

For the first time in the series Adil Rashid was the most profligate of the attack.

The American motorist is among the most profligate in the world.

This year's fraught negotiations on a replacement for the Kyoto protocol are taking place in Doha, the Qatari capital, where they are fuelled by some of the most inefficient, profligate, carbon-spewing power generation in the world.

The green deal has the potential to upgrade some of the most energy-profligate building stock in western Europe.

This is to be achieved by a massive programme of investment in renewable energy and other low-carbon technologies, by transforming the US vehicle industry away from dependence on oil-based fuels and by promoting an a belief in energy efficiency that could scarcely be more counter-cultural to the most energy-profligate society on the face of the earth.

It was hard to believe that this matronly "empty nester," as she referred to herself, was the same person who hijacked the social pages for almost a decade with her outrageous parties (most notably a profligate three-day blowout in 1986 for her husband's 60th birthday) and extravagant couture outfits — Rabanne!

Most of today's profligate water use occurs in the richer nations – the average American uses around 575 litres of water per day, while Europeans somehow manage on 250 litres per day.