Definition of profligacy
: the quality or state of being profligate
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Examples of profligacy in a Sentence
a religious leader who railed against the profligacy of the nation's decadent aristocrats
Recent Examples of profligacy from the Web
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Liverpool could, perhaps should, have scored more than five, a profligacy that may prove haunting.
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The Brazilians were made to pay for their profligacy in the 13th minute, as Fernandinho diverted a Nacer Chadli corner into his own net.
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The visitors had started brightly, with Blagoja Ljamcevski hitting the crossbar early on, but Rangers dominated after Murphy's strike, only for their profligacy to keep their opponents in the tie.
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There’s a clearer, more unnerving connection to today: the slipperiness of identity and the profligacy with the truth.
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Argentina outplayed Nigeria in Ibaraki, with the 1-0 scoreline being a testament to the profligacy of goalscorer Gabriel Batistuta and the brilliance of Nigerian goalkeeper Ike Shorunmu.
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Yussuf Poulsen punished their profligacy with the winner after half time and despite bringing on all-time top scorer and captain Paolo Guerrero the Incas couldn't make their dominance count.
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Morocco, meanwhile, will be sorely disappointed to have not capitalized on their dominance and will regret their profligacy in front of goal.
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The Weinsteins’ profligacy led to a split with Disney in 2005.
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First Known Use of profligacy
1738
profligacy Synonyms
Synonyms
corruption, debauchery, depravity, immorality, iniquitousness, iniquity, libertinism, licentiousness, sin, vice;
Near Antonyms
honesty, honor, integrity, legitimacy, probity, rectitude, scrupulosity, scrupulousness, uprightness;
goodness, righteousness, virtuousness;
chastity, innocence, perfection, pureness, purity, spotlessness;
cleanness, correctness, decency, decorousness, propriety, rightness, seemliness;
Related Words
bad, badness, blackness, evil, evildoing, ill, turpitude, villainy, wickedness, wrong;
atrociousness, evilness, heinousness, sinfulness, unscrupulousness, viciousness, vileness, villainousness;
devilry (or deviltry), fiendishness;
corruptness, debasement, degeneracy, degeneration, depravedness, dissoluteness, dissolution;
indecency, lasciviousness, lechery, lewdness, looseness, perversion, pervertedness, wantonness;
abomination, anathema, taboo (also tabu);
criminality, reprehensibleness;
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