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profligate

副词: profligately 名词: profligacy

profligate基本解释

adj.放荡的；不检点的；浪费的

n.放荡者；享乐者

profligate同义词

profligate相关例句

用作形容词(adj.)
  • 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。
  • 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。
  • 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.)
  • 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。
  • 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?

profligate英英释义

Noun:
  • a dissolute man in fashionable society

  • a recklessly extravagant consumer

Adjective:
  • recklessly wasteful;

    "prodigal in their expenditures"

  • unrestrained by convention or morality;

    "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"
    "deplorably dissipated and degraded"
    "riotous living"
    "fast women"

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