Profligate (adj)
proff-li-gut
Recklessly extravagant or wasteful in the use of resources.
Wildly extravagant and wasteful.
Example sentences
“Humanity is a profligate consumer of the Earth’s natural resources.”
“It is always the people who pay for the profligate habits of governments.”
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