profligate English
Adjective
( en adjective)
(obsolete) Overthrown, ruined.
* Hudibras
- The foe is profligate , and run.
Inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly.
* 2013 , Ben Smith, "[http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/24503988]", BBC Sport , 19 October 2013:
- Jay Rodriguez headed over and Dani Osvaldo might have done better with only David De Gea to beat and, as Southampton bordered on the profligate , United were far more ruthless.
Immoral; abandoned to vice.
* Roscommon
- a race more profligate than we
* Dryden
- Made prostitute and profligate muse.
Synonyms
* (inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly) extravagant, wasteful, prodigal
* immoral, licentious
* See also
Derived terms
* profligateness
Noun
( en noun)
An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person.
An overly wasteful or extravagant individual.
Synonyms
* (overly wasteful or extravagant individual) wastrel
* See also and
Verb
( profligat)
(obsolete) To drive away; to overcome.
* 1840 , Alexander Walker, Woman Physiologically Considered as to Mind, Morals, Marriage, Matrimonial Slavery, Infidelity and Divorce , page 157:
- Such a stipulation would remove one powerful temptation to profligate pennyless seducers, of whom there are too many prowling in the higher circles ;
Synonyms
* overcome
Related terms
* profligacy
* profligately
* profligateness
* profligation
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brutish English
Adjective
( en adjective)
Of, or in the manner of a brute
Bestial; lacking human sensibility
Quotations
* 1651 , (Thomas Hobbes),
*: No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish , and short.
* 1843 , (Thomas Carlyle), '', book 3, ch. IX, ''Working Aristocracy
*: The haggard despair of Cotton-factory, Coal-mine operatives, Farm-labourers, in these days, is painful to behold; but not so painful, hideous to the inner sense, as the brutish god-forgetting Profit-and-Loss Philosophy, and Life-theory, which we hear jangled on all hands of us […]
* {{quote-magazine, title=Towards the end of poverty
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, passage=But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.}}
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