- A
spendthrift (also
profligate or prodigal) is
someone who is
extravagant and
recklessly wasteful with money,
often to a
point where the
spending climbs...
- Album: A
Personal Selection from Four
Generations of
Churchills (1982) The
Profligate Duke:
George Spencer Churchill,
Fifth Duke of Marlborough, and His Duchess...
- 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...
- Wilmington,
Michael (5
January 2003). "Polanski's 'Pianist' may put '
profligate dwarf' in
better light".
Chicago Tribune.
Retrieved 25
November 2012....
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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...
- services; the
sculptor had been the
favourite artist of the
previous and
profligate Barberini pope,
Urban VIII.
Without papal patronage, the
services of Bernini's...
-
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...
- and
other 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...
-
Caesar after he
became Roman consul in 59 BC. However,
Ptolemy XII's
profligate behavior bankrupted him, and he was
forced to
acquire loans from the Roman...
- 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...
