profligacy

[ prof-li-guh-see ]

noun

1. shameless dissoluteness.
2. reckless extravagance.
3. great abundance.

Word History and Origins

Origin of profligacy¹

First recorded in 1730–40; proflig(ate) + -acy

Example Sentences

If he dramatically impacts BBB, he could argue he dealt a blow to liberal profligacy while supporting it later.

From Washington Post

Profligacy — and huge appetites for food and games of chance — ruled him.

From Washington Post

In the museum, the objects become a picture of human profligacy, dangling over you — not unlike our pending environmental doom.

From Washington Post

Magic Leap executives consistently bristled at reports of the company’s profligacy over the years, saying rivals were actually spending more but obscuring their projects deep within massive balance sheets.

From Fortune

Even those who were not already republicans wanted the royals to be more aware of how incongruous their profligacy seemed.

From The Daily Beast

They remain forever vigilant that neither monetary ease nor fiscal profligacy engender inflation.

From The Daily Beast

King even attributed poverty in large measure to what he considered the profligacy and laziness of African Americans.

From The Daily Beast

There are also undeniable hints of Objectivism in fashions that celebrated the profligacy of the 1980s and of the pre-bust 2000s.

From The Daily Beast

Otherwise, he'd have to listen to long Chinese lectures about Wall St. profligacy and play the weaker hand.

From The Daily Beast

Hence immorality prevailed, and every foreigner who visited the land was shocked at the exhibition of profligacy in the streets.

From Project Gutenberg

He was born a plebeian, and rose to distinction by his talents, but was ejected from the senate for his profligacy.

From Project Gutenberg

Coupled with his fooleries and his profligacy he had much sound sense—a faculty that his son Harry wholly lacked.

From Project Gutenberg

Its ethnology belongs to the different countries which it dignified by its valour, or dishonoured by its profligacy.

From Project Gutenberg

But we were more interested in the particular story of Mrs. Nightingale than in the general ethics of profligacy.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• irresponsibility