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profligacy

[ prof-li-guh-see ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

First recorded in 1730–40; proflig(ate) + -acy

Even those who were not already republicans wanted the royals to be more aware of how incongruous their profligacy seemed.

They remain forever vigilant that neither monetary ease nor fiscal profligacy engender inflation.

King even attributed poverty in large measure to what he considered the profligacy and laziness of African Americans.

There are also undeniable hints of Objectivism in fashions that celebrated the profligacy of the 1980s and of the pre-bust 2000s.

Otherwise, he'd have to listen to long Chinese lectures about Wall St. profligacy and play the weaker hand.

Hence immorality prevailed, and every foreigner who visited the land was shocked at the exhibition of profligacy in the streets.

He was born a plebeian, and rose to distinction by his talents, but was ejected from the senate for his profligacy.

Coupled with his fooleries and his profligacy he had much sound sense—a faculty that his son Harry wholly lacked.

Its ethnology belongs to the different countries which it dignified by its valour, or dishonoured by its profligacy.

But we were more interested in the particular story of Mrs. Nightingale than in the general ethics of profligacy.

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