profligacy

IPA: prˈɔfɫɪgæsi

Examples of "profligacy" in Sentences

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.