Still, the feeling of wealth led some companies to spend profligately.

This precious resource has been profligately spent in recent years.

As a student, he profligately spent a benefactor's scholarship money.

"Or at least, stop draining the system so profligately as you have been doing.

Not merely his years, but how profligately he has used and abused them, pushed himself when other men would stop to rest.

"But did he not destroy profligately things for which he had no use?"

It wasn't very much, not at the end of everything, after a life he'd wasted so profligately.

The band itself evoked the golden light scattered profligately across the sea's surface.

And he lashed out just as profligately when he finally exploded, according to the police.

For years, the banks lent profligately, helping to send real estate prices soaring throughout the country.

The software profligately creates icons galore and eight separate Windows program groups.

But none have done it as profligately as Mr. Bush.

The word Hitler, which has been used profligately in discussions of the Iraqi leader, speaks to another.

No one else can kill that profligately.

Then, spending shadows profligately, she took the offensive.

Let's go from spending wildly profligately to merely irresponsibly and call it austerity.

And if she was no longer saving herself, exactly, at least she didn't spend herself very profligately.

"I saw people profligately destroy estates," said Ms. Krieger, now 66.

The world used such willingness profligately.

The oil they'd spread so profligately made the flames burn hotter, and the wood of the shed was old, weathered, probably dry.

It is difficult to argue, though, that what is casually termed a bailout will tempt any other country to act profligately.

The Legislature's profligately pork-happy ways were thwarted in 1927, when governors won the sole right to propose budgets.

But Washington's share of those budgets became a smaller slice of the pie, in part because the city profligately expanded the pie.

They'd wasted fuel, profligately, pushing the Peregrine at max accelerations, and had nearly made up the Ariel's lead.

He said "his department was scouring through existing regulations and proposed new ones in order to ensure that none would encourage resources to be used profligately".