profligate
PROF-lih-gitadjMeaning wildly and recklessly wasteful
Memory hook pro-FLIG-ate: FLINGS it away. Rex flings handfuls of gold coins off the bridge just to hear them splash; spending money that recklessly is profligate.
The profligate prince spent the royal treasury on golden fountains while the town’s roads crumbled.
In context The company’s profligate spending, on private jets and lavish parties, left it unable to pay its workers when sales slowed.
Similar wasteful, lavish, spendthrift, reckless
Opposite thrifty, frugal, prudent
From Latin profligatus, past participle of profligare (to strike down, to ruin).