Profligacy

Quick meaning: Profligacy is a noun meaning (countable) Careless wastefulness.

Meaning

(countable) Careless wastefulness.

More Meanings

1. (uncountable) Shameless and immoral behaviour.

Example Sentences

Sir Robert bitterly reproached himself for having consigned his child to another, when he saw the effect of too early initiation into profligacy, or, as Francis called it, knowledge of the world.

Outsiders who scoffed at this profligacy misunderstood the masquerade. Condé’s editors were the original influencers, their lives a top-to-bottom marketing campaign for the company that hired them.

She mixed furniture with the same fatal profligacy as she mixed drinks, and this outrageous contact between things which were intended by Nature to be kept poles apart gave her an inexpressible thrill.

Villa spent most of the second period probing from wide areas and had a succession of corners but despite their profligacy they will be glad to overturn the 6-0 hammering they suffered at St James' Park in August following former boss Martin O'Neill's departure

Word Forms

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Synonyms for profligacy

Depending on context, synonyms include carrying-on, knavery, rakehood, vice, extravagance, profligateness.

Antonyms for profligacy

Common opposites include virtue.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include prodigality, extravagance, licentiousness, dissipation, dissolution, wastefulness.

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