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profligate

adjective

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Recklessly wasteful or lacking moral restraint.

The report criticized the committee's profligate spending.
Dictionary practice example.
The novel contrasts a profligate heir with a careful steward.
From Vocabulary Studio 51: Probity to propitiate.
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