Sentence examples for very profligate from inspiring English sources

My parents believed that going to restaurants and buying clothes not sold by weight on Orchard Street were things done only by the very wealthy or the very profligate, maybe those extravagant "welfare queens" we kept hearing about on television.

No matter how loyal a Republican, my father would likely have declared Mr. Romney a very silly, profligate man — not the kind of man to be trusted with his precious tax money.

American consumers seem to be fed up with risk or, at the very least, with profligate spending, judging by quarterly losses posted by Trump Entertainment Resorts and Harrah's Entertainment.

Germany still has a triple-A credit rating and is in a position to rescue its more profligate neighbors for the very reason that the Germans have refused to write a blank check.

Also, C.E.O.s who indulge in perks are likely to be profligate in general with shareholder money.

And it's no mystery why this has been happening: the profligate burning of fossil fuels, the very thing that US Airways was bound and determined to do despite the inconvenience presented by a melting tarmac.

Cathcart gets at a very crucial argument concerning how the Western media machine profligates (and encourages) hilarious memes and misdirection about North Korea, without ever engaging with the country itself.

After the death of his father, John IV, in 1656, Peter's feebleminded and profligate elder brother Afonso VI brought Portugal to a very low condition.

How less profligate would the decade have been had the ruinous trade for Antonio McDyess (thank you very much, Scott Layden) never been made and the paint had been patrolled by Camby and Nene?

Its unwillingness to subsidise the weak and profligate is understandable; but the alternative is worse.Breaking up the euro is not unthinkable, just very costly.

Mr. Casella is out to prove that one organ can disrupt lives in a lot of ways, so the men encompass a broad range: Stephen Austin Peckk) is a profligate gay man; Joseph Dan Butlerr) is a father whose wife abandoned him and their children with a very blunt explanation as to why; Rick Brian Leahyy) is a big talker with a girlfriend and a wandering eye.