What's the difference between loafer and profligate?

Loafer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who loafs; a lazy lounger.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Loafers were worn sockless, with a few inches of tanned ankle.
  • (2) The local British brands are very attractive because of the high quality.” While they haven’t bought any Burberry goods yet, she reckons the Loake loafers her partner bought earlier are 30% cheaper than at home.
  • (3) In the landscape in which I work, in south India, a large tuskless male known as CMK1 or “Naadodi Ganesan”, “the village loafer Ganesan”, spends all his time around people and displays behaviour that is rather different from his fellow elephants.
  • (4) In the Pentagon worldview, however, there is simply no drug use, nor any factory-style drudgery, and no one in the US Air Force is, was or ever shall be light enough in the loafers to invoke The Wizard Of Oz poetically.
  • (5) She's trimly turned out in a tweed jacket and silver loafers.
  • (6) Series nine of The Apprentice ( Tue & Wed, 9pm, BBC1 ) and the winds of change are howling around Lord Sugar's tasselled loafers.
  • (7) Amiable, wise and pink-cheeked, with the same taste for the finer things we have witnessed in certain popes – let us remember Benedict’s red leather loafers – it’s all but impossible, once you’ve read his new novel, not to imagine how fabulous he would look in a white zucchetto , with a cape to match, and a socking great ring on his finger for journalists to kiss as they try desperately not to reveal the sin of envy in his presence (before he was a million-selling novelist, Harris was a hack just like them – and me).
  • (8) Spray-painted monk-strap shoes, desert boots and tasselled loafers paraded on a catwalk raised to audience eye-level in order to give a an ant's-eye view of the main event.
  • (9) Hirst's Prada loafers are on the floor in front of us, but his signature tinted glasses are nowhere to be seen.
  • (10) He will trade his famous red shoes for some brown loafers given to him in Mexico last year, but will continue to wear a cassock in the traditional papal colour of white.
  • (11) If you’re going out raving you might go for the Gucci loafers but for the standard day to day, it’s all about Reebok Classics or Nikes.
  • (12) 'Is it proper to wear tasselled loafers with a business suit or not?'"
  • (13) This means her look is all trainers, flats and comfy loafers, paired with loose jeans and baggy jumpers.
  • (14) He was not averse to this, preferring to cloak his iron self-discipline and thirst for knowledge under a crisp linen shirt, a light tan, and pair of Gucci loafers.
  • (15) You are the Ref No345: Zlatan Ibrahimovic Read more In what is perhaps a sign that Roman Ambramovich has been through every other manager in the world that might be willing to work with him, he is reportedly flicking through his old contact book to give some former friends a shout, with Carlo Ancelotti and Guus Hiddink the men who could fill José’s loafers.
  • (16) They're forcing us to travel with tiny tubes of toothpaste and moving us to wear loafers when usually we'd prefer lace-ups.
  • (17) What unites us is an unconditional love for France,” Marion Maréchal-Le Pen told an eclectic audience ranging from retired business leaders in smart loafers to heavy-metal fans, poor farmers, trendy teenage girls and people carrying lapdogs with bows in their hair.
  • (18) The Russian MP has written to the Customs Union, a grouping that includes Russia , Belarus and Kazakhstan, suggesting it introduces regulations limiting heels to 5cm in height, as well as ruling out trainers and men's loafers.
  • (19) At this point the penny loafer drops: they're called the 1% because they're lonely.
  • (20) Gucci being the key show from autumn, and the loafer with furry insides the key shoe, it was always going to be the show-off shoe for editors attending these spring shows.

Profligate


Definition:

  • (a.) Overthrown; beaten; conquered.
  • (a.) Broken down in respect of rectitude, principle, virtue, or decency; openly and shamelessly immoral or vicious; dissolute; as, profligate man or wretch.
  • (n.) An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person.
  • (v. t.) To drive away; to overcome.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But this is not to say that I do not have a working knowledge of true bedsitters - and yes, they do still exist, in spite of estate agents' profligate use of the term 'studio flat'.
  • (2) But it relies too much on the myth that booms enrich everyone, a myth easily exposed by pointing out that under that supposedly profligate Labour administration, now accused of recklessly taking from the rich and giving to the poor, the gap between the richest and the poorest didn't narrow.
  • (3) "With a 53 per cent increase in energy consumption forecast by 2035, those who are commercially savvy will recognise that in a resource poor future, we cannot be captured by a profligate economic model from the past.
  • (4) Reasonable use” sounds … well, reasonable, but a “use it or lose it” clause incentivizes profligate use: if you don’t use your historic water allocation in a beneficial way, you forfeit your water rights, Gray said.
  • (5) The coalition succeeded an unbelievably profligate government that took state spending from 34% of GDP to over 45% in a decade .
  • (6) Other critics say low water prices are the culprits as they result in profligate water use and low investment in water-efficient infrastructure.
  • (7) All the debt ceiling ends up becoming is a political football used by the opposition party to suggest the government are profligate spenders.
  • (8) He believes that Osborne's decision to veto the measures in February shows that the Tories want to put spending cuts ahead of tackling child poverty as he seeks to depict Labour as profligate.
  • (9) The credit crunch hit, which might have been terminal to a project so palpably of the profligate boom years, but then the cavalry appeared, in the form of the property arm of the ruling family of Qatar.
  • (10) Thatcherism liked to present itself as a rejection of the postwar, state-driven, more profligate way of doing things.
  • (11) There is no reason why a constitutional solution that involves debt limitation should not command a large measure of public acceptance, especially in debtor countries, which have experienced the political and economic damage caused by previous profligate governments.
  • (12) In Brussels, right-of-centre German economists, who until recently dominated the European Central Bank's main decision-making board, lobbied for a "can't-pay, won't-pay" stance towards southern European countries seen as profligate spenders who need to understand the moral hazard of raising their living standards on a mountain of debt.
  • (13) The latest shock wave has served to ram home the reality that this remains first of all a crisis of the banks and the private sector – not, as the British government would have it, of profligate governments and public debt, which only ballooned to fill the gap left by market failure.
  • (14) Election officials have also disqualified Raja Pervaiz Ashraf, the man who until just a few weeks ago was the country's prime minister, under articles ensuring candidates are, among many other things, "sagacious, righteous and non-profligate".
  • (15) As inspectors from Brussels demanded answers this week from the Spanish government about how it plans to bring profligate regional governments under control, senior officials admitted they were clueless as to the real size of the debt in the biggest region – party-loving Andalucía.
  • (16) "People have far more confidence in Britain than in many other western countries who have got into trouble through profligate economic policies," he said.
  • (17) London, which has less annual rainfall than cities such as Athens and Sydney, is classed as "seriously water-stressed" by the Environment Agency , but critics of the Beckton plant – including former mayor of London Ken Livingstone – told the inquiry that desalination was energy-profligate, unnecessary and unsustainable.
  • (18) More and more people feel the gap between the profligate promises of individual freedom and sovereignty, and the incapacity of their political and economic organisations to realise them.
  • (19) His party has no members of parliament, a situation unlikely to change at the next election, and offers promiscuous and profligate policies that add up to errant nonsense as a platform for government.
  • (20) That debacle shows the Conservatives as being as profligate as sailors on shore leave.