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  • 81prodigal — I adjective careless, dissipated, dissipative, excessive, extravagant, heedless, immoderate, improvident, imprudent, intemperate, lavish, liberal, profligate, reckless, spendthrift, squandering, thriftless, unbridled, uncurbed, uneconomical,… …

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  • 82vicious — I adjective abandoned, acrimonious, atrocious, barbarous, beastly, blameworthy, brutal, censurable, contrary, corrupt, criminal, cruel, dangerous, debased, degenerate, demoralized, depraved, devilish, diabolical, disgraceful, evil, evil minded,… …

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  • 83dissipated — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. dissolute, profligate, debauched, licentious; dispersed (see dispersion). See intemperance, impurity. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Scattered] Syn. dispersed, strewn, disseminated; see scattered . 2.… …

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  • 84impurity — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Moral uncleanness Nouns 1. impurity, immodesty, grossness, indelicacy, indecency; pornography, curiosa, obscenity, ribaldry, smut, bawdy, filth, double entendre; coprophilia; pornographic movie, blue… …

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  • 85rake — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. gather, collect; comb, ransack, search, rummage; enfilade, spray with bullets; incline, slope. See assemblage. n. libertine, roué, rakehell; slope, ramp. See cleanness, obliquity, agriculture. II… …

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  • 86reprobate — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. sinner, scoundrel; rogue, blackguard. See impiety. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Wicked] Syn. unprincipled, corrupt, depraved, immoral, amoral, lewd, vicious, dissolute, profligate, vile, demoralized,… …

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  • 87wanton — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. lewd, licentious, loose, dissolute, immoral; frolicsome, abandoned, capricious, willful; wild; heartless, malicious; heedless, reckless, wayward, perverse; luxuriant, rampant, exuberant. See… …

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  • 88waste — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Gradual loss or decay Nouns 1. waste, wastage; dissipation; dispersion; ebb; leakage, loss; wear and tear; extravagance, wastefulness, prodigality, conspicuous consumption; waste of time; jeunesse dorée; …

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  • 89hedonist — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. sensualist, libertine, profligate, pleasure lover, thrill seeker, Sybarite, voluptuary, eudaemonist, epicurean, epicure, gourmand, roué, rake, debauchee, Sardanapalus, Lucullus; see also glutton , lecher . II (Roget s 3… …

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  • 90prodigal — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. lavish, extravagant, squandering; see wasteful . See Synonym Study at profuse . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) (VOCABULARY WORD) a. [PROD uh gul] extremely wasteful or extravagant. Joe s prodigal grandson spent his… …

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