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ˈprofligately, adv.
[f. profligate a. + -ly2.]
In a profligate manner or degree; with reckless indulgence or open wickedness; dissolutely; with reckless prodigality, profusely, wastefully.
1694F. Bragge Disc. Parables xi. 374 An utter want of that Divine grace, which they so profligately wasted while they had it. 1741Middleton Cicero I. iii. 173 He was lazy, luxurious, and profligately wicked. 1791Boswell Johnson 27 Mar. an. 1775 note, It is related, that he who devised the oath of abjuration, profligately boasted, that he had framed a test which should ‘damn one half of the nation, and starve the other’. 1838Dickens Nich. Nick. xvi, Mr. Gregsbury..looked like a man who had been most profligately liberal, but is determined not to repent of it. 1868F. W. Newman in Morn. Star 5 June, The hard-earned wealth of our middle classes, and the honour of our nation, would be profligately squandered. |