profligatory

comparative more profligatory · superlative most profligatory

1. Tending to or encouraging wastefulness.

   Dr. K.M. Naidu pointed out that the present economic crisis was the result of profligatory behaviour of the government since 1985.

   1991, The Indian economic journal: the quarterly journal of the Indian Economic Association, volume 39

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   The adverse effect of profligatory fiscal policies pursued by successive governments on balance of payments disequilibrium and the consequent bungling of trade and payment plicies have seriously affected the efficiency of our trade and payments regime during the first forty years of our planned economic development.

   2000, Bishwa Nath Singh, M. P. Shrivastava, Narendra Prasad, editors, Indian economy in the 21st century: problems and prospects

2. Tending to or encouraging immoral behaviour.

   They are only causing great harm to the country and human society, by this sort of wicked and profligatory ideas.

   1997, Sri Nigamananda, translated by Bijoy Kumar Giri, The divine universal gospels of Sri Nigamananda, volume 1

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   Cook was amazed by this procedure, but others, notably missionaries, viewed it in a more derogatory light, labelling it profligatory or the height of debauchery (Ellis, 1831).

   1995, Igor de Garine, Nancy J. Pollock, editors, Social Aspects of Obesity