1. profligacy - Noun
2. profligacy - Adjective
The quality of state of being profligate; a profligate or very vicious course of life; a state of being abandoned in moral principle and in vice; dissoluteness.
Source: Webster's dictionarySociety is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all. Alexis de Tocqueville
By buying junk bonds, the Fed has created a proverbial “” for those investors whose risk-taking had gotten out of control but now may not face the consequences for their profligacy. Source: Internet
Beyond these initial prosecutions, the ecclesia attacked Pericles himself by asking him to justify his ostensible profligacy with, and maladministration of, public money. Source: Internet
Heavily in debt, due to the profligacy of his father, Francesco sacked Monteverdi and he spent a year in Mantua without any paid employment. Source: Internet
In another era — ancient Rome, perhaps, or 18th-century France — such profligacy might have been interpreted as the last gasp of a blinkered privileged class before the revolution. Source: Internet
MDC youths plan protest against Mugabe's sons HARARE - MDC youths have threatened to demonstrate against the profligacy of President Robert Mugabe's sons. Source: Internet