Spendthrift

Usage examples of profligate.

If he must dispense his balm of Gilead in nostrums and apothegms of dubious taste to restore to health a generation of unfledged profligates let his practice consist better with the doctrines that now engross him.

Such was the promising state of my prospects when my evil genius brought to Madrid a native of Liege, Baron de Fraiture, chief huntsman of the principality, and a profligate, a gamester, and a cheat, like all those who proclaim their belief in his honesty nowadays.

Myself he considers a hardened profligate, and Miss Mannering a prime piece of Haymarket-ware.

Hebrew Prophets, in his terrible denunciations of the heartless manslayer, and the shameless, boastful profligate.

The children of drunkards, thieves, profligates, all suffer through the misdoings of their parents.

And this profligate cityscape is populated by characters--some met, some merely mentioned--with names equally evocative: Porphyria Levant, Estella Velvet, Brother Orphelin, Cerberus Cresset, Mavortian von Heber.

That spillage, that pond, was the most profligate consumption of resource possible, and the mad wondered at it, and called that reed-rimmed pool a mirage.

Ivan, the Squinter, ruled over his serfs with Oriental despotism: he was ignorant, coarse, and profligate.

The brows drew in, the black eyes hardened with a cold narrowing of mistrust: even before he spoke he saw she had read the story of his profligate extravagance, and that from that moment the hard propriety of her suspicious soul had been turned against him with that virtuous dislike which such people feel for unmoneyed men.

Giovanni Borgia, Duke of Gandia, had been ever an amiable profligate, a heedless voluptuary obeying no spur but that of his own pleasure, which should drive him now to his destruction.

The dark, unrelenting Tiberius, the furious Caligula, the feeble Claudius, the profligate and cruel Nero, the beastly Vitellius, and the timid, inhuman Domitian, are condemned to everlasting infamy.

Europe, were drawn from the meanest, and very frequently from the most profligate, of mankind.

The servile and profligate youths whom Marcus had banished, soon regained their station and influence about the new emperor.

If he must dispense his balm of Gilead in nostrums and apothegms of dubious taste to restore to health a generation of unfledged profligates let his practice consist better with the doctrines that now engross him.

This young man seemed intended by nature for shameful excesses, for at the age of fourteen he was an accomplished profligate.