noun
- A dissolute man in fashionable society.
- A recklessly extravagant consumer.
- synonyms: prodigal, squanderer
adjective
- Recklessly wasteful.
- usage: "prodigal in their expenditures"
- synonyms: extravagant, prodigal, spendthrift
- Unrestrained by convention or morality.
- usage: "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women"
- synonyms: debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, libertine, riotous, fast
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