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
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The hosts were almost made to pay for their profligacy two minutes later, but Edinson Cavani's clumsy finish kept them in the lead.
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But the more libertarian, limited-government wing of the party generally prioritizes cutting domestic spending over boosting defense spending, and has pushed back against the February deal as allowing profligacy on all fronts.
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His cure was to redouble his efforts to warn America about the perils of profligacy.
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But the Houthis are far from defeated and the conflict is bleeding money and resources from a Saudi Arabia that can no longer afford limitless profligacy.
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And their profligacy continued to plague them, as Perisic met Eder's immaculate cross but could only flick the ball off target.
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Germany has long been reluctant or unwilling to countenance any change that could put its taxpayers on the hook for its neighbors’ profligacy.
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Juventus missed other chances to extend its lead and was made to pay for its profligacy as Eriksen fired a low free kick into the bottom left corner.
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That could make employers, influence networks, and ordinary people slightly more literate about the profligacy of internet companies.
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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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