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- adjective Common misspelling of
profligate .
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Examples
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Instead the market realized that the government, after 12 years of prolifigate GOP deficit spending was getting serious about reducing the deficit – interest rates declined and the economy boomed.
Matthew Yglesias » Harold Ford Calls for Immediate Tax Cuts, Immediate Deficit Reduction 2010
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But all of those travesties under 16 years of Republican rule are OK because Republicans feel "queasy" about their prolifigate spending and government expansions even as they continue to gorge at the trough.
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Reading this charming book is like taking a visit to a richer parallel Earth where Nature, already prolifigate and extravagant, went on a real bender.
asimov's review of surreal botany jlundberg 2009
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But this newfound adult responsibility completely lacks credibility given the prolifigate largess coming from Republicans over the better part of the past decade.
Jeff Schweitzer: A Sudden Conversion to Fiscal Conservatism 2009
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Remember when a couple hundred billion a year in deficit spending to fight a war on terror seemed prolifigate?
"We could lose a generation of potential and promise..." Ann Althouse 2009
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He ballooned our debt to $10 trillion and exploded our deficits in an orgy of prolifigate spending with no off-setting revenue.
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I am rarely one to support prolifigate spending by HM Government, but I wonder if the Home Office is adversely affected by having to fund accommodation for specialist police teams sent to difficult investigations?
Home Office civil servants spend 323 years a year living in hotels 2008
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He mushroomed our debt to $10 trillion and exploded our deficits in an orgy of prolifigate spending with no off-setting revenue.
Jeff Schweitzer: Transition Topic VI: Nixon to China, Reagan to Russia, Obama to... 2008
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After dismal fundraising compared to his leading opponents and prolifigate spending, McCain has replaced Eudy with Mary Kate Johnson, who was the deputy finance director for Bush/Cheney 2000.
McCain Axes Finance Director--Sort of Matt Johnston 2007
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Our success so far could be wiped out overnight in the hands of a prolifigate administration.
the inevitable 2005
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