Profligate \ PROF-luh-guht; -gayt \ (adjective) - 1 : Openly and shamelessly immoral; dissipated; dissolute. 2 : Recklessly wasteful.
(noun) - A profligate person.
"Both Curtiss and Feldmar agreed that after the birth of Bruno the couple grew less happy and that there was a good deal of squabbling caused, apparently, by the father's profligate ways and infidelities." -- Arthur Lennig, 'Stroheim'
Profligate derives from the past participle of Latin profligatus , from profligare , to strike or fling forward, hence to the ground, from pro- , forward + fligere , to strike down.
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