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Profligately

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prof·li·gate  (prfl-gt, -gt)
adj.
1. Given over to dissipation; dissolute.
2. Recklessly wasteful; wildly extravagant.
n.
A profligate person; a wastrel.

[Latin prflgtus, past participle of prflgre, to ruin, cast down : pr-, forward; see pro-1 + -flgre, intensive of flgere, to strike down.]

profli·ga·cy (-g-s) n.
profli·gate·ly adv.
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Adv.1.profligately - in a dissolute way


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With this handsome offer, Mr Gregsbury once more threw himself back in his chair, and looked like a man who had been most profligately liberal, but is determined not to repent of it notwithstanding.
 
 
 
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