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profligacy::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | dissipation, dissolution, licentiousness, looseness |
| Type of | intemperance, intemperateness, self-indulgence |
profligacy::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | extravagance, prodigality |
| Type of | improvidence, shortsightedness |
Examples of profligacy
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And, in the 80th minute, Mitch Nichols made Wellington pay for their profligacy.
From the nzherald.co.nz
The message of budget profligacy is now being resurrected on the campaign trail.
From the businessweek.com
He found himself invited to yearend bonus parties of P. Diddy-esque profligacy.
From the businessweek.com
I'd say they would be made to pay for this profligacy if QPR didn't look so poor.
From the telegraph.co.uk
That problem isn't due to Social Security, it is due to Congressional profligacy.
From the curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com
But in developing countries the issue is one of storage rather than profligacy.
From the thisismoney.co.uk
That was the cause of the crisis in Spain, not the profligacy that you mention.
From the economist.com
Localities are paying the price of profligacy during the good years, critics say.
From the washingtonpost.com
We in the rich world will have to pay some price for our decades of profligacy.
From the economist.com
- Extravagance: the trait of spending extravagantly
- Dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure
- (profligate) extravagant: recklessly wasteful; "prodigal in their expenditures"
- (profligate) rake: a dissolute man in fashionable society
- (profligate) debauched: unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women"
- A spendthrift (also called profligate) is someone who spends money prodigiously and who is extravagant and recklessly wasteful. The origin of the word is someone who is able to spend money acquired by the thrift of predecessors or ancestors.
- Careless wastefulness; shameless and immoral behaviour
- (profligate) An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person; An overly wasteful or extravagant individual; To drive away; to overcome; Inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly; Immoral; abandoned to vice
