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Inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly. / Immoral; abandoned to vice. / (obsolete) Overthrown, ruined.

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profligate

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Source Word

profligate

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ˈpɹɒflɪɡət/

Adjective

obsolete

Inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly. / Immoral; abandoned to vice. / (obsolete) Overthrown, ruined.

Japanese Meaning

資源を浪費する傾向がある、または贅沢に振る舞う / 不道徳で、悪徳に堕ちた / (古語) 倒壊した、破滅した

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His profligate spending on luxury cars drained the family fortune within a few years.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

彼の浪費的な高級車への支出は、数年のうちに家の財産を食いつぶした。

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Inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly.

His undignified and profligate exile—needy suitor to-day to the only heiress of the royal French blood, and to-morrow to one of the nieces of the Italian adventurer, Mazarin. Utterly neglectful of what he owes to the kingdom which he hopes to regain, Charles has learned but adversity's worst lesson—expediency.

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