| They are profligately displaying their power, including the power to abuse the House's tenuous-at-best policing of itself. |
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| He chose movie scripts profligately, appearing in lousy films just to earn money for his expensive enthusiasms. |
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| I'm slowly catching up on lost sleep and regaining the energies that I've had to spend so profligately these past few weeks. |
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| When others consume profligately, it can actually harm society. |
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| In recent years, the administration has chosen to spend profligately even in areas where it was under no compulsion to do so. |
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| In such a programme we would use fossil fuels, which we know to be finite and which emit CO2, as quickly as possible and would burn them just as inefficiently and profligately, in a way which the United States could teach us. |
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| It caused banks to lend profligately, so they ended up with a lot of bad loans, which required the government to set record-low interest rates to bail them out. |
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| These, with a couple of glasses of Georgia's most celebrated red wine, Mukuzani, brought our bill to around £40 a head, though we ordered profligately. |
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| Keeping up with the dotcom start-ups would mean spending as profligately as they had, but without the freedom that came, in those golden days, from investors' tolerance of big losses. |
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