How To Use Profligacy In A Sentence
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Years of profligacy under the previous regime condemned them to their debt.
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Locals are stunned by the profligacy as deadlines are passed and the budget overruns by millions of dollars.
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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 ...
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Take out-of-town shopping centres as an example of land profligacy.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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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
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Town halls have always been a rich source of stories about profligacy and waste.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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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
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German policymakers and people alike rightly resent unsustainable Southern European profligacy.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is encouraging profligacy and waste, and that is not what we want just now from the biggest country in the world.
Times, Sunday Times
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The introduction of some form of private finance initiative would eradicate much of the profligacy within the industry.
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It isn't just sexual profligacy that will land you in trouble.
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There's the perceived threat of terrorist attacks, the continued loss of civil liberties in the West and especially in the US, the possible disruption of oil supplies, and at some point that "piper" waiting to be repaid for years of financial profligacy in the US to fund all the "adventuresomeness" and excess stimulus to keep the economy humming.
What the price of gold may be telling us
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It seems pretty clear that the human race is fouling up the earth by our profligacy and one of the biggest fouling agents is automotive fuel.
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For Obama, responding to these problems will require breaking deep national addictions — to oil, to etherealized finance, to profligacy of all kinds — and, somehow, easing the tremens along the way.
Then and Now
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It has a serious problem with young people's sexual profligacy.
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The consequence of this state of things is the prevalence of the greatest profligacy, which is fostered by the innumerable herd of monks who infest the country.
The Letter-Bag of Lady Elizabeth Spencer-Stanhope — Volume 1
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Only profligacy from the Italians and good goalkeeping from Igor Akinfeev prevented Inter increasing their lead.
BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition
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The United States is almost invariably held up as a shining counterpoise to this profligacy.
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The best anecdotes always involved the camera persons, their miserliness, their profligacy with the company's money ( "To hire of camel"), their thick-skinned insouciance on matters of taste or tact.
Why staff photographers are so important to popular newspapers
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Ho had come to the seat of my residence with the bricklayers and labourers I have mentioned; and, while he took care to keep out of sight so far as related to me, was industrious in disseminating that which, in the eye of the world, seemed to amount to a demonstration of the profligacy and detestableness of my character.
Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are
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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.
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Meanwhile, the country is paying an onerous price for its profligacy.
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The investors demanded that the profligacy stop.
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Luka and the Fire of Life zings along with a palpable sense of Otter-like excess: its exuberance is inextricably linked to its profligacy with puns, rhymes, one-liners and snippets of nonsense.
Luka and the Fire of Life by Salman Rushdie - review
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The shameless profligacy of the emperor's life was such as to shock even a jaded Roman public.
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All this may seem like an incitement to profligacy, consistent with Keynes's rather bohemian private life as a charter member of the Cambridge Apostles and the Bloomsbury group.
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Town halls have always been a rich source of stories about profligacy and waste.
Times, Sunday Times
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He nearly succeeds in spoiling the impending marriage of Claudio and Hero by leading Claudio to believe, on the occasion of a masqued ball (2.1), that Don Pedro is wooing the lady for himself and not for Claudio; and then, undaunted by his final lack of success in this gambit, Don John proceeds to unfix the marriage once again by devising a tale about Hero's supposed sexual profligacy.
Shakespeare
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Observe the greater breadth of the brain of the Indian, which according to cerebral physiology indicates great alimentiveness, indolence, morbid sensibility, irritability, profligacy, but also note that it _differs materially in the proportion of all its parts_, from the European brain.
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand
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Mean while the sudden affluence occasioned by trade, forced open all the sluices of luxury and overflowed the land with every species of profligacy and corruption; a total pravity of manners would ensue, and this must be attended with bankruptcy and ruin.
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
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During Clinton, aided and abetted by Republican profligacy, the US started all sorts of grant programs to states and polisubs, usually just enough to pay one or a few staffers for some study, investigation, monitoring, training program.
Chris Christie (R, NJ) zeros out faith-based program! | RedState
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In the realm of coin profligacy, does the rise of the discarded dime mean that nickels were passed by?
David Finkle: These Days It's Dimes That Are a Dime a Dozen
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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
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Rome -- the 'colluvies gentium' -- the sink of the nations, with its conceit, its pomposity, its beggary, its profligacy, its superstition, its pretence of preserving the Roman law and rights, while practically it cared for no law nor right at all.
Roman and the Teuton
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The country needs to borrow to pay for this profligacy.
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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
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In the institution of the central bank, the government has the ultimate tool to permit its profligacy to continue without check and without regard to the future.
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Nor did they intend the unsustainable fiscal and monetary profligacy practised by Latin American politicians during the same period.
The Times Literary Supplement
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To use something once and then toss it onto the rubbish heap is not just an act of profligacy, it is also represents a failure of the collective imagination.
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Hardest of all will be finding the political will to curb profligacy.
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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.
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The late goal was painful punishment for their profligacy.
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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
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Most of us know people who misuse their credit cards through holiday spending sprees or random acts of profligacy.
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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
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This Government is at least alive to the profligacy that went unchecked under the last.
The Sun
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Offering credit cards to students would have been considered an unthinkable act of profligacy on behalf of the banks a decade earlier.
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The first is to depict Labour as the party of economic profligacy and mismanagement.
Times, Sunday Times
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This show conveyed the haunted profligacy of the artist and his work.
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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.
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I am a retired Pastor but if I lived out my days in open, proud adultery and, after my wife divorced me, fornication and died unrepentant, no Church would bury me, let alone one to which I did not belong, had never had any spiritual authority over me, and in whose community my profligacy were a byword.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Texas megachurch refuses to bury gay veteran:
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In countries where the nobility are destitute of public employment, they naturally degenerate -- become the victims of the diseases of indolence and profligacy, transmit their decrepitude to their descendants, and bequeath dwarfishness and deformity to their name.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844
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Instead, my pre-school kids will spend their entire lives being punished for Blair and Brown's profligacy whether or not they dare risk going to university.
The coalition counts on blaming Labour for everything. Bad move| Rafael Behr
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Fiscal profligacy by the Government since well before the last election has sharply constrained the ability of UK policymakers to borrow and spend more.
Times, Sunday Times
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The domestic public debt is not the product of state profligacy.
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Her youthfulness, liberalism, drug taking and sexual profligacy made her an easy target.
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The fungible funds bridge the budget deficit - the proceeds of divestment subsidise the profligacy of the Union government.
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The nation is again being told off for its profligacy, economic wowsers merrily predicting a scuttling.
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Take an axe to Brown's incontinent profligacy and we'll save loadsamoney.
Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
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For a country legendary for thrift and good husbandry, this is a disgraceful display of profligacy.
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Palace almost paid the price for their profligacy, when Svensson and Roberts both flicked on a long punt and the ball fell invitingly for McKenzie just 12 yards out.
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Most of us know people who misuse their credit cards through holiday spending sprees or random acts of profligacy.
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The health department is leaving no stone unturned in its search for profligacy that could be trimmed.
Times, Sunday Times
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T.is warmth was stopped by Augustus Hervey, who spoke to order, and called for the question; but young T. T.wnshend confirmed, that the term profligacy was applied by all mankind to the conduct on the warrants.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3
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By hook or by crook, football is being called to account for the years of profligacy.
