Profligate

(a.) Overthrown; beaten; conquered.

(a.) Broken down in respect of rectitude, principle, virtue, or decency; openly and shamelessly immoral or vicious; dissolute; as, profligate man or wretch.

(n.) An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person.

(v. t.) To drive away; to overcome.

编辑:娜塔莎

• Thou hast turned out a most cold-blooded profligate, as I am told: but it might not have been thus if we had married. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• What if he be a profligate debauchee, and would rather receive harm than benefit from large possessions? 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• But let me tell you one thing, Aunt: Mr. Wildeve is not a profligate man, any more than I am an improper woman. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• It is on record that he got five pounds from the close-fisted old lady Queen Charlotte, and two guineas from the royal profligate her eldest son. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Her Grace, in her infinite condescension, then goes on to state that the said Harriette Wilson is the lowest and most profligate creature alive. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• The Parisienne, on the other hand, was prodigal and profligate (in disposition, that is: as to action, I do not know). 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• The man would be half a poet, if he were not wholly a maniac; and perhaps a prophet, if he were not a profligate. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Besides, he's such an infernal character--he's a gambler--he's a drunkard--he's a profligate in every way. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• But his father--and his uncle--were the most profligate coachmen that ever sat upon a box. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• What is to be expected of, or by, such profligates? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.

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