profligate是什么意思

音标:英 [ˈprɒflɪgət]美 [ˈprɑ:flɪgət]

a. 放荡的, 不检点的, 浪费的放荡者, 享乐者

n a dissolute man in fashionable society
n a recklessly extravagant consumer
s recklessly wasteful
s unrestrained by convention or morality

profligate的用法和例句：

1. This is a book about vapid, profligate fools.

这本书讲的是一群既平庸又败家的傻子

2. They fired their last civil law firm for being profligate.

他们前一任民事律所就因为大手大脚解雇了

3. Ablebodied men who could possibly work were officially designated as idle and profligate.

身体健全 尚有工作能力却沦落至此 被官方认定为是懒惰和挥霍的