profligacy
Speech parts
1. profligacy - Noun
2. profligacy - Adjective
Meaning
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.
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Examples
Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all.
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.
Beyond these initial prosecutions, the ecclesia attacked Pericles himself by asking him to justify his ostensible profligacy with, and maladministration of, public money.
Heavily in debt, due to the profligacy of his father, Francesco sacked Monteverdi and he spent a year in Mantua without any paid employment.
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.
MDC youths plan protest against Mugabe's sons HARARE - MDC youths have threatened to demonstrate against the profligacy of President Robert Mugabe's sons.