0 spending money or using something in a way that wastes it and is not wise: --
1 someone who behaves in a way that is morally wrong or who spends and wastes a lot of money: --
He is a drunkard and a profligate.
2 wasting something, esp. money: --
profligate spending
First, a ceiling should be imposed on business rates as a safeguard against extravagant, high-spending, profligate local authorities.
We are trying to do that through planning policy guidance that seeks less profligate use of land without downgrading the quality of the environment.
Thatcherite energy policy was entirely profligate and threw away the lead that we had in renewable energy—in wave and wind power.
This is probably due to the fact that gulls are attracted by the potential food made available by the profligate discarding of edible waste by man.
The natural world is characterised as unruly, profligate, and indecently fecund.
Of course profligate owners have always struggled with the cost of upkeep.
Second, the energy required to provide lighting is up to three times the amount converted into light: artificial lighting is a profligate use of energy.
It is clear that these two transformations are profligate in their introduction of propositions and generation of rules.
