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Examples of profligacy in a Sentence
a religious leader who railed against the profligacy of the nation's decadent aristocrats
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Investors, among them bond king Bill Gross, once feared that government profligacy was a death knell for sovereign bonds.
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That means devising a package acceptable both to Democrats, who tend to support debt relief for Puerto Rico, and to conservative Republicans, who see debt relief as a bailout that would unacceptably reward profligacy.
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Another salesgirl joined in and lamented that such profligacy negated any sense of exclusivity.
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