- A
spendthrift (also
profligate or prodigal) is
someone who is
extravagant and
recklessly wasteful with money,
often to a
point where the
spending climbs...
-
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...
- 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...
- 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...
-
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...
- 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...
- estate, he
explains to
Charles that,
because of
Uncle Ned's
eccentric and
profligate lifestyle, his
whole estate was
eaten up by
debts and
legal costs, and...
- (Cresson, 1864) G.
nigrifemorum Luhman, 1986 G.
osakensis (Uchida, 1930) G.
profligator (Fabricius, 1775) G.
satoi (Uchida, 1930) G.
townesi Ciochia, 1973 G...
- He then
established his
residence in
Carlton House,
where he
lived a
profligate life.
Animosity developed between the
prince and his father, who desired...
- Lyttelton, 2nd
Baron Lyttelton (1744–1779),
British MP for Bewdley, 1768 and
profligate,
dubbed "the
wicked Lord Lyttelton" and "bad Lord Lyttelton"
Thomas Lyttelton...
