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profligate

/ˈpräfləɡət/
adjective

  1. recklessly extravagant or wasteful in the use of resources

noun

  1. a licentious dissolute person
He bought four pair — a profligate quantity of socks — and not only were they not gray, no two pair were even the same color.

– Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer

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