"Power piggery", the profligate use of electricity, is a crime.

It was a profligate use of candles, but there were hundreds of candles.

He would also chip away at policies that encourage profligate use of roads.

Reduce munitions expenditurers-when the only thing stopping the Russians was the profligate use of every weapon at hand?

A better approach would be to wean the nation from its profligate use of oil.

Because these systems did not encourage recipients to work, she regarded them as "a profligate use of public funds."

Super-cheap water has led to its profligate use.

This profligate use of alloy and rubber is what makes the FX45 look as if it just drove off the turnstile at an auto show.

One issue dominated above all others - the environmental damage caused by our relentless search for, and profligate use of, energy.

Our irresponsible and profligate use of energy, with its consequential emissions of C02 and other environmental hazards must stop.