profligacy
pronunciation
How to pronounce profligacy in British English:
UK ['prɒflɪɡəsɪ]
How to pronounce profligacy in American English:
US ['prɒflɪɡəsɪ]
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- Noun:
- the trait of spending extravagantly
- dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure
Word Origin
- profligacy (n.)
- 1670s, from profligate + -cy.
Example
- 1. German officials have argued that any open-ended commitment to joint liabilities would encourage errant governments to profligacy , violate Germany ’ s constitution and raise its borrowing costs .
- 2. The ruling party ' s propagandists in Beijing have been working overtime , huffily putting out statements bashing the United States for its fiscal profligacy and economic sloth .
- 3. In the desert all around are the lush golf courses and artificial pools squandering a finite , life - giving commodity , offering a kind of gleeful profligacy to those willing to pay .
- 4. And he even forced certain writers to recount concerning his profligacy some details which were unspeakable , or , more properly , intolerable to relate , considering that this was in a biography of him .
- 5. The continuing profligacy of certain states