Chasing awards is a profligate use of client money and a detriment to their business requirements.
The only way to avoid the epithet is to be a profligate spender and promiscuous warmonger who routinely violates the Constitution.
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Even for a profligate superpower, that is a considerable stake, and America's recently expressed dissatisfaction with General Musharraf should be measured against it.
In my view, one of the main faults of the Bush administration, in conjunction with a profligate Republican Congress, was that they squandered the surpluses that we now need.
Indeed, the State of California is said to have a major debt problem, but does anyone think for a second that Apple or Occidental Petroleum would pay higher rates of interest on debt solely for operating in a state run by a profligate government?
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Given the slowness of economic recovery, that was probably a mistake, but it certainly suggests that the image of the President as a fiscal profligate is not entirely deserved.
Compared with Ferrante, Thomas Pynchon is a publicity profligate.
The euro zone also needs to think about political tools denying profligate countries a vote in any euro decisions, for instance.
That impression, already battered, will be impossible to sustain if the ECB ends up giving a liquidity lifeline to profligate governments for long.
If profligate members of a currency union know that their reckless spending and borrowing will always be bailed out by a central bank, they will have an incentive to borrow as much as they dare relative to the balance sheets of the more prudent members of the currency union, rather than to their own balance sheets.
The unfortunate bailouts of profligate homeowners were to a high degree a symptom of a weak dollar that made housing so initially attractive to begin with.
Now, the trial will serve as a further lesson in financial responsibility to profligate royals.
Nor is there much in the notion that, once a single currency is in operation, profligate sovereign borrowers will weaken it or push up interest rates.
It is true that, thanks in part to rising commodity prices, a buoyant world economy and less-profligate governments, many emerging economies are in better shape than they were.
Instead, we have a crisis of insolvency, first among certain profligate governments and second among banks.
The time-honoured way for a Republican opposition to undermine a Democratic president is to depict him as profligate with the nation's treasure and careless of its security.
That is no mean feat for a country that many have long considered irredeemably profligate and irresponsible, and therefore unfit to stand alongside disciplined north Europeans like the Dutch and the Germans.
America spends 53% more per head than the next most profligate country and almost two-and-a-half times the rich-country average.
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They had hired people who were not Oklahoma citizens to gather petition signatures for a referendum to impose spending limits on Oklahoma's profligate legislators.
Instead Greece used the comfort cushion of an 8% reduction in debt service charges to borrow so that profligate state benefit programmes could be expanded in a quest to by votes.
Without it, argue critics, the markets would simply mark down the debts of profligate countries without damaging the euro's fortunes as a whole.
And there remains the possibility of a delayed reaction to current price levels, as consumers, particularly profligate Americans, turn to less thirsty cars and appliances.
Last fall, for instance, we worked with Intuit subsidiary Quicken, issuing a report on Mustached Americans being in greater financial need due to their profligate spending habits on ladies, leather pants and teeth whitening.
And it did so, despite the evident discomfort within the institution about being even "one leg" of a programme which to many of them feels like the central bank letting profligate governments and unwise private investors off the hook.
Our profligate government spending, weak economic growth and stagnant job creation are a toxic mix.
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Now, in affirming the superior attributes of bitcoin in the role of financial innovation, the ECB correctly identifies why the profligate issuers of national fiat currencies will ultimately feel threatened by such a decentralized nonpolitical unit.
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Unfortunately, for people like myself who believe that there is a compelling business case for protecting the environment, data released by the U.S. Energy Information Administration today showing that U.S. GHG emissions dropped a whopping 5.8% in 2009 will likely reinforce the perception that profligate pollution is good for economic growth.
Done skilfully, his could be an apology on behalf of the over-profligate nation as much as to it in the manner of a penitent husband, who invites his wife for mutual counselling with a view to everyone behaving better in future.
But without strict conditions on profligate states and the imposition of losses on reckless creditors, all are taking a free ride on Germany.
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