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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Tottenham defender Toby Alderweireld has rued the profligacy of his side following their 1-1 draw against Burnley at Wembley on Sunday.
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Bilic has been desperate for a new forward this summer after the east London club's profligacy in front of goal last term.
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A year after the site’s launch, critical media reports suggested Jet wasn’t gaining traction with customers, framing the company as an example of Silicon Valley profligacy.
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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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If Germany gives too much, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government will face pressure from the political far right for forcing taxpayers to bear an even bigger burden of Greece’s past profligacy.
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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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Without bond vigilantes, fiscal profligacy is all but inevitable.
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First Known Use of profligacy
1738
profligacy Synonyms
Synonyms
corruption, debauchery, depravity, immorality, iniquitousness, iniquity, libertinage, libertinism, licentiousness, vice, sinAntonyms
morality, virtueRelated 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; baseness, despicableness, dirtiness, lowness, meanness; lousiness, miserableness, wretchednessNear Antonyms
good, right; honesty, honor, integrity, legitimacy, probity, rectitude, scrupulosity, scrupulousness, uprightness; goodness, righteousness, virtuousness; blamelessness; chastity, innocence, perfection, pureness, purity, spotlessness; cleanness, correctness, decency, decorousness, propriety, rightness, seemlinessLearn More about profligacy
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