profligacy

How To Use profligacy In A Sentence

• Years of profligacy under the previous regime condemned them to their debt.
• Locals are stunned by the profligacy as deadlines are passed and the budget overruns by millions of dollars.
• It is an im - pudent avowal of political profligacy! as if that fpecics of The Parliamentary Register: Or, History of the Proceedings and Debates of the House of Commons ...
• Take out-of-town shopping centres as an example of land profligacy. Times, Sunday Times
• As I have argued before, it is the "profligacy" of Germany's Mediterranean trading partners that has allowed it to rack up huge current account surpluses and therefore run smaller budget deficits than the PIIGS countries. Marshall Auerback: Germany Faces a Messy Break-up With the Euro
• Having ceased to be the refuge of the hunted and the cynosure of the oppressed, this country would thenceforth awe the nations of the Old World by its military power, and shock them by its profligacy, whereof the Ostend Circular and the murders and forgeries of Kansas were but foretastes, until God in His righteous wrath should bring upon it some visitation like the present, and hurl it from its pinnacle in mercy to mankind. The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
• Town halls have always been a rich source of stories about profligacy and waste. Times, Sunday Times
• On that occasion she relentlessly scrounged, albeit in a sweetly demure fashion, cigarettes from all and sundry, suggesting a certain profligacy towards other people's property.
• On the subject of guilt about spending money on books, I read an article a few years ago which talked about the principle of ‘Pleasure per pound spent’. i.e. one person’s irresponsible profligacy is another’s totally justifiable purchase because of the amount of pleasure involved. Reasons For Buying Books « Tales from the Reading Room
• German policymakers and people alike rightly resent unsustainable Southern European profligacy. Times, Sunday Times