Wednesday, September 24, 2008

PROFLIGATE

excessively wasteful

recklessly extravagant

/a dissolute man infashionable society
SYN - blood, rake, rip, roue

a recklessly extravagant consumer
SYN - prodigal, squanderer

ADJ
recklessly wasteful
SYN - extravagant, spendthrift

unrestrained by convention or morality
SYN - debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, fast, libertine
ANT - thrift

"He didn't want to appear as though he was supporting the activities of a profligate, but at the same time this person was family."

"He despised the way she brushed off any impact her being another rich OC profligate mother would have on the environment."

"Someone who was so profligate with their possessions needed the lessons a great depression can teach."

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