profligate
英 [ˈprɒflɪgət] 美 [ˈprɑflɪgət]

adj.

挥霍的；浪费的；放荡的；行为不检点的

n.

放荡的人，浪子，肆意挥霍者；

英英释义

profligate[ 'prɔfliɡət, -ɡeit ]

• n.
  • a dissolute man in fashionable society

    同义词：rakerakehellripbloodroue

  • a recklessly extravagant consumer

    同义词：prodigalsquanderer

• adj.
  • recklessly wasteful

    同义词：extravagantprodigalspendthrift

  • unrestrained by convention or morality

    同义词：debaucheddegeneratedegradeddissipateddissolutelibertineriotousfast

双语例句

用作形容词(adj.)

1. We both know that he has been profligate in every sense of the world.
   我们都知道他已变成不折不扣的淫棍。
2. These profligate sons of the rich used to get away with all sorts of crimes.
   这些纨绔子弟犯下种种罪行，但常能逍遥法外。
3. Similarly Americans have been profligate in the handling of mineral resources.
   同样的，美国在处理矿产资源方面亦多浪费。

用作名词(n.)

1. Thus the crisis punishes the frugal more than the profligate.
   如此看来，危机对节俭者的惩罚，要比对恣意挥霍者更为严厉。
2. Why do you bring your profligate companions here?
   为什么你要把你那些酒肉朋友带到这里来呢?

权威例句

Problems with profligate Platonism
Cost-effective or profligate community psychiatry?
Parsimonious Or Profligate: How Many And Which Discourse Structure Relations?
Profligate biotin synthesis in α-proteobacteria - a developing or degenerating regulatory system?
Parsimonious and Profligate Approaches to the Question of Discourse Structure Relations
Cholesterol testing in young adults. Prudent or profligate?
Professional Football Sponsorship—Profitable or Profligate?
Rewarding the profligate and punishing the prudent and poor: Some recent proposals for debt relief
Institutional Constraints on Profligate Politicians: The Conditional Effect of Partisan Fragmentation on Budget Deficits
Viewing pornography and sex guilt: The priggish, the prudent, and the profligate.