profligacy
IPA: prˈɔfɫɪgæsi
noun
- (countable) Careless wastefulness.
- (uncountable) Shameless and immoral behaviour.
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Examples of "profligacy" in Sentences
- Profligacy puts Chavez's dream at risk.
- He was infamous for his extravagance and profligacy.
- This government's record of profligacy is for all to see.
- The foulest profligacy of manners was general in all ranks.
- He was regarded as infamous for his extravagance and profligacy.
- The conflict of thrift versus profligacy runs through much of the book.
- They have a docile temperament and are known for their profligacy in lambing.
- In both instances, it is used to indicate the moral profligacy of the infected.
- This is the time for a debate on his government's profligacy with the public's money.
- The fallout from its inevitable demise was always going to be more fiscal and monetary profligacy.
- In the realm of coin profligacy, does the rise of the discarded dime mean that nickels were passed by?
- Only profligacy from the Italians and good goalkeeping from Igor Akinfeev prevented Inter increasing their lead.
- The consequence of this state of things is the prevalence of the greatest profligacy, which is fostered by the innumerable herd of monks who infest the country.
- T.is warmth was stopped by Augustus Hervey, who spoke to order, and called for the question; but young T. T.wnshend confirmed, that the term profligacy was applied by all mankind to the conduct on the warrants.
- As I have argued before, it is the "profligacy" of Germany's Mediterranean trading partners that has allowed it to rack up huge current account surpluses and therefore run smaller budget deficits than the PIIGS countries.
- On the subject of guilt about spending money on books, I read an article a few years ago which talked about the principle of ‘Pleasure per pound spent’. i.e. one person’s irresponsible profligacy is another’s totally justifiable purchase because of the amount of pleasure involved.
- I am a retired Pastor but if I lived out my days in open, proud adultery and, after my wife divorced me, fornication and died unrepentant, no Church would bury me, let alone one to which I did not belong, had never had any spiritual authority over me, and in whose community my profligacy were a byword.