Profligately

adv

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Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In a profligate manner.

    "In the next section of this paper we discuss a general strategy for estimating profligately (as opposed to parsimoniously) parameterized macromodels[.]"

Adverb
  1. 1
    in a dissolute way wordnet

Synonyms

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dissolutely

Example

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"The industrialised world is used to using water profligately."

Etymology

From profligate + -ly.

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