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"profligate life" is a grammatically correct phrase and is commonly used in written English
It refers to a wasteful, extravagant, and often morally reckless lifestyle. It can be used in various contexts, such as describing someone's behavior, habits, or choices. Example: - She was known for her profligate life, constantly spending money on luxuries and indulging in wild parties. - The wealthy businessman's profligate life was the subject of much gossip in high society. - As a result of his profligate life, he quickly squandered his entire inheritance. - Despite warnings about the consequences of living a profligate life, he continued to engage in reckless and irresponsible behavior. - The novel portrays the protagonist's struggle with the temptations of a profligate life in the big city.
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By 2012, Abu Ali's profligate life began tilting towards despair.
Nor are they judgmental about Mr. Estrada's profligate life style.
The story starts with him as a young artist at Oxford in the nineteen-twenties; there, he falls in love with the flamboyantly profligate life style of a pair of siblings, the aristocratic Sebastian (Ben Whishaw) and his beautiful sister Julia Hayley Atwelll).
He then established his residence in Carlton House, where he lived a profligate life.
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'It's not a time to be seen to be profligate in corporate life,' said Michael Prager, CEO of the Real Hotel Company, the parent of Purplehotels.
Mr. Estrada's profligate way of life, a key part of the prosecution's case against him, is regarded as a badge of pride by some poor Filipinos.
Taken together, these two great books present a vast and tragic action: the Red Army, which heroically defended and then liberated Stalingrad against seemingly impossible odds, goes on to burn, pillage and rape its way across eastern Europe, to take the German capital with massive cruelty (particularly against German women civilians) and profligate loss of life.
The crackpot realist may be a fair tactician, but he is always a poor strategist, and often profligate with human life.
The eight-month escapade in 1915 resulted in the deaths of 11,000 men from the lands Down Under, a spectacularly profligate waste of human life even by The Great War's standards.
In more than a decade of analyzing long-classified military criminal investigation files, court-martial transcripts, Congressional studies, contemporaneous journalism and the testimony of United States soldiers and Vietnamese civilians, I found that Gen. William C. Westmoreland, his subordinates, superiors and successors also engaged in a profligate disregard for human life.
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