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Definition of Profligately
1. Adverb. In a dissolute way.
Definition of Profligately
1. adv. In a profligate manner.
Definition of Profligately
1. Adverb. In a profligate manner. ¹
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Definition of Profligately
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Profligately
Literary usage of Profligately
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1830)
"I say profligately, because the fact itself is a denial of the probability that
they can have been honestly deserved or bestowed. ..."
2. Speeches Delivered in the Convention of the State of South-Carolina, Held in by South Carolina Convention, South Carolina Convention (1832-1833). (1833)
"True it was, that in carrying out this unjust and unconstitutional taxation,
money profligately raised, was profligately expended by the Government; ..."
3. The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle, Frank Hesketh Peters (1886)
"... it is absurd to say that he who acts 13 unjustly does not wish to be unjust,
or that he who behaves profligately does not wish to be profligate. j/_ If ..."
4. The life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens (1883)
"... threw himself back in his chair, and looked like a man who had been most
profligately liberal but is determined not to repent of it notwithstanding. ..."
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