profligacy

How To Use profligacy In A Sentence

• Indeed, Lightbody's profligacy explained why Jed only managed to tot up six first-half points, through a Clark Laidlaw drop goal - in the eighth minute and Kevin Amos' penalty.
• This show conveyed the haunted profligacy of the artist and his work.
• The first is to depict Labour as the party of economic profligacy and mismanagement. Times, Sunday Times
• Offering credit cards to students would have been considered an unthinkable act of profligacy on behalf of the banks a decade earlier.
• This Government is at least alive to the profligacy that went unchecked under the last. The Sun
• With religion bestialized and its management regulated wholly with an idea to the gratification of man's sensuous desires, religious temples, under the supervision of the priesthood, became brothels, in which were openly practiced as part and parcel of religious rites and ceremonies the most wanton profligacy and the most shameless self-abandonment. The God-Idea of the Ancients
• Most of us know people who misuse their credit cards through holiday spending sprees or random acts of profligacy.
• It's because you don't like my way of living," he charged, thinking in his own mind of the sensational joyrides and general profligacy with which the newspapers had credited him -- thinking this, and wondering whether or not, in maiden modesty, she would disclaim knowledge of it. Chapter XV
• Just look at the relative fiscal profligacy or prudence of those European countries going it alone versus those who have joined the EU. Times, Sunday Times
• 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.