Profligate
['prɒflɪgət] or [prɔflɪɡət]
解釋/意思:
(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.
編輯:娜塔莎
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Depraved, corrupt, dissolute, corrupted, very wicked, graceless, very vicious, shameless, abandoned.
n. Debauchee, rake, libertine, man of pleasure.
編輯:梅根
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Abandoned, depraved, dissolute, degenerate, corrupt, vicious, shameless,[SeeABANDONED]
古斯塔夫校對
解釋/意思:
adj. abandoned to vice: without virtue or decency: dissolute: prodigal: (obs.) overthrown defeated.—n. one leading a profligate life: one shamelessly vicious: an abandoned person.—ns. Prof′ligacy Prof′ligateness state or quality of being profligate: a vicious course of life.—adv. Prof′ligately.
錄入:卡利
例句/造句/用法:
- Thou hast turned out a most cold-blooded profligate, as I am told: but it might not have been thus if we had married. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- What if he be a profligate debauchee, and would rather receive harm than benefit from large possessions? 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- But let me tell you one thing, Aunt: Mr. Wildeve is not a profligate man, any more than I am an improper woman. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- 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. 雪麗.
- Her Grace, in her infinite condescension, then goes on to state that the said Harriette Wilson is the lowest and most profligate creature alive. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- 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. 維萊特.
- 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. 雪麗.
- 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·薩克雷. 名利場.
- But his father--and his uncle--were the most profligate coachmen that ever sat upon a box. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- What is to be expected of, or by, such profligates? 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
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