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- noun Plural form of
profligate .
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Examples
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One day, about a month after the conversation which we have just detailed between the two brothers, the following conversation took place among that class of the mechanics whom we shall term the profligates: --
Phelim Otoole's Courtship and Other Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831
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Tierney quotes a study in Science that offers an incredibly practical solution: become more efficient with our fossil fuels, cap and tap C02 waste, and generally just stop behaving like profligates.
Marc Stoiber: Getting Practical With Your Sustainability Brand Marc Stoiber 2012
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And with the finance ministers' meeting coming only two days before elections in Ms. Merkel's Baden-Wüttemberg stronghold, the chancellor wants to reassure her voters that the entire euro experiment has not become a means for profligates to tap into Germany's strong balance sheet.
One-Size Monetary Policy Rarely Fits All Irwin Stelzer 2011
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Whatever the reason—voter opposition to more transfers of their wealth to beach-lolling southerners, a desire to force reforms on reluctant profligates, a desire to force several nations to surrender even more sovereignty, or mere self-interest—Ms. Merkel is earning her sobriquet as Madame Nein.
Euro-Zone Shark Still Has It's Appetite Irwin Stelzer 2011
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We want to provide competition and some restraint on the profligates that have been running the Federal Reserve and the people in Congress who don't know the word 'no.'
Delegate proposes Va. mint its own money Rosalind S. Helderman 2011
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Ms Merkel knows her core voters will not defect to the opposition Social Democrats, but if she is seen as overly solicitous of the needs of nations Germans see as partying profligates, large numbers of them just might stay at home.
The Euro Zone's Road to Recovery Keeps Getting Bumpier Irwin Stelzer 2011
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Tierney quotes a study in Science that offers an incredibly practical solution: become more efficient with our fossil fuels, cap and tap C02 waste, and generally just stop behaving like profligates.
Marc Stoiber: Getting Practical With Your Sustainability Brand Marc Stoiber 2012
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• The Germans have to avoid committing themselves to writing a blank check to their southern profligates.
Conflicting Agendas Doom Summits Irwin Stelzer 2011
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For lack of any realistic alternative, the outcome could only be to lend the profligates even more money, notwithstanding the equally familiar and perfectly justified grumbling about moral hazard and rewarding failure.
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The cries of the deficit hawks grow louder: Repent all ye fiscal profligates, before the "day of reckoning" comes.
Marshall Auerback: Yes Virginia, There Is a Difference Between Greece and the U.S. 2010
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