profligately
Definition
- Adverb:
- In a dissolute, extravagant, or recklessly wasteful manner: Describes an action done with a complete lack of restraint, especially regarding money, resources, or moral principles. It implies shameless or immoral extravagance.
Usage Examples
- Adverb:
- He spent his inheritance profligately, buying fast cars and throwing lavish parties.
- The company's resources were used profligately, leading to its rapid bankruptcy.
- They lived profligately, with no thought for the future.
Advanced Usage
- "To act profligately": To behave in a wildly extravagant or dissolute manner.
- The ruler acted profligately, draining the kingdom's treasury for his own pleasures.
Variants and Related Words
- Profligate (adjective): Recklessly extravagant or completely immoral.
- He was known for his profligate spending habits.
- Profligate (noun): A person who is recklessly extravagant or dissolute.
- The young heir became a profligate, squandering his fortune.
- Profligacy (noun): The characteristic or quality of being profligate; shameless wastefulness.
- The profligacy of the court was shocking to the common people.
Synonyms
- Dissolutely: In a manner lacking moral restraint; licentiously.
- Extravagantly: In a manner exceeding reasonable limits, especially in spending.
- Wastefully: In a manner that uses something carelessly or unnecessarily.
- Lavishly: In a sumptuously rich, elaborate, or luxurious manner.
Antonyms
- Frugally: In a manner characterized by economy and the avoidance of waste.
- Thriftily: In a way that uses money and other resources carefully and wisely.
- Temperately: In a restrained or moderate manner.
Adverb
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in a dissolute way
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