- A
spendthrift (also
profligate or prodigal) is
someone who is
extravagant and
recklessly wasteful with money,
often to a
point where the
spending climbs...
- first-team pay in
excess of £10m ($13.8m) per year. However,
years of
profligate spending under the
leadership of
Josep Maria Bartomeu (president between...
- to the
monarchy in general. The
French libelles accused her of
being profligate, promiscuous,
having illegitimate children, and
harboring sympathies for...
-
which required him to keep
order among the many new
bodies and
prevent profligate spending that
strained relations as well as finances. Cromwell's reforms...
- Chapter) of the
Skanda Purana recounts the
remarkable story of Vahika, a
profligate and
unrepentant sinner, who is
killed by a
tiger in the forest. His soul...
-
luxury goods from England,
paying for them by
exporting tobacco. His
profligate spending combined with low
tobacco prices left him £1,800 in debt by 1764...
- how my
Irish friend and I behaved.
Imagine to
yourself everything most
profligate and
shocking in the way of
dancing and
sitting down together." Austen...
- in a more
extensive letter written shortly afterward,
calling Burr a "
profligate, a
voluptuary in the extreme",
accusing him of
corruptly serving the interests...
-
Battalia à 10 is a
piece of
chamber music written by the Bohemian-Austrian
composer Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber. The work is
known for its
early use of...
- the "battlefield east of the
Barrikady blazed with the most
violent and
profligate clash the
world would ever see" and that in
regard to hand-to-hand fighting...
