(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.
Vice
Definition:
(n.) A defect; a fault; an error; a blemish; an imperfection; as, the vices of a political constitution; the vices of a horse.
(n.) A moral fault or failing; especially, immoral conduct or habit, as in the indulgence of degrading appetites; customary deviation in a single respect, or in general, from a right standard, implying a defect of natural character, or the result of training and habits; a harmful custom; immorality; depravity; wickedness; as, a life of vice; the vice of intemperance.
(n.) The buffoon of the old English moralities, or moral dramas, having the name sometimes of one vice, sometimes of another, or of Vice itself; -- called also Iniquity.
(n.) A kind of instrument for holding work, as in filing. Same as Vise.
(n.) A tool for drawing lead into cames, or flat grooved rods, for casements.
(n.) A gripe or grasp.
(v. t.) To hold or squeeze with a vice, or as if with a vice.
(prep.) In the place of; in the stead; as, A. B. was appointed postmaster vice C. D. resigned.
(prep.) Denoting one who in certain cases may assume the office or duties of a superior; designating an officer or an office that is second in rank or authority; as, vice president; vice agent; vice consul, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) I am rooting hard for you.” Ronald Reagan simply told his former vice-president Bush: “Don’t let the turkeys get you down.” By 10.30am Michelle Obama and Melania Trump will join the outgoing and incoming presidents in a presidential limousine to drive to the Capitol.
(2) James Cameron, vice-chairman of Climate Change Capital , an environmental investment group, and a member of the prime minister's Business Advisory Group , says: "I think the UK has, in essence, become a better place for green investors.
(3) Chris Pavlou, former vice chairman of Laiki, told Channel 4 news that Anastasiades was given little option by the troika but to accept the draconian terms, which force savers to take a hit for the first time in the fifth bailout of a eurozone country.
(4) Grace has no capacity so she will be very mechanised.” This week Robert Mugabe described Mujuru, his vice-president of a decade, as too simplistic .
(5) La3+ binding was partially inhibited by RuR and vice versa, and La3+ was also capable of partially displacing RuR previously bound to the synaptosomes, particularly in the sucrose medium.
(6) It is not known whether the conversion of DHEAS into E1 and E2 influence the conversion of 16OH-DHEAS into E3 and vice versa.
(7) Behavioral interventions developed for alcohol abuse are now being tested with drug abusers, and vice versa.
(8) George Bush, who won Ohio narrowly last time, has been there almost 20 times in the past four years and Vice-President Cheney is on his way this week.
(9) And I was a little surprised because I said: ‘Doesn’t sound like he did anything wrong there.’ But he did something wrong with respect to the vice-president and I thought that was not acceptable.” So that’s clear.
(10) The vice chancellor of the Catholic University, Greg Craven, wrote in the Australian that stripping either dual or sole nationals of citizenship via a ministerial decision “would be irredeemably unconstitutional.
(11) The only thing Michael Fabricant could reasonably be vice-chairman of is the steering committee of Nurse Ratched 's ward fete.
(12) With this announcement, the UK is demonstrating the type of leadership that nations around the world must take in order to craft a successful agreement in Paris and solve the climate crisis,” said former US vice-president Al Gore.
(13) "This was followed later by an attack at the SPLA (South Sudan army) headquarters near Juba University by a group of soldiers allied to the former vice-president Dr Riek Machar and his group.
(14) Norepinephrine (10(-5) to 10(-6) M) increased contractile force and decreased alpha iNa, but in its presence ACh still increased force and alpha iNa and vice versa.
(15) Microbial antigen-specific LTT responses fluctuated considerably in time from strongly positive to negative and vice versa in healthy individuals as well as in patients.
(16) Lynn Kramer, the zoo's vice-president of animal operations and welfare, said five lions were typically in the exhibit and have never appeared to endanger each other before.
(17) Retrieval was manipulated by representing a proportion of the old picture and word items in their opposite form during the recognition test (i.e., some old pictures were tested with their corresponding words and vice versa).
(18) Any family seen to be "enmeshed" is also seen as "fused," and vice versa.
(19) During flexion the lateral femoral condyle displays near extension pure rolling, near flexion pure gliding, on the medial side this ratio is vice versa.
(20) Vice versa, when the glpF and glpK(+) alleles of S. flexneri are incorporated into E. coli, the hybrid strain grows slowly in low glycerol medium.