profligacy

• Then the bill for their profligacy is just too great, and they shy away from increasing taxes to pay for the public debts they have incurred during a downturn. —  This is Money | Home
• "The question is how you do it -- profligacy, or I believe a mature and responsible approach." —  Denver Business News - Local Denver News | Denver Business Journal
• At once sensual, penurious, and bigoted, he spent his whole time in private profligacy--for he was a hypocrite, too--in racking his tenantry, and exhibiting himself as a champion for Protestant principles. —  Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One
• 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
• This warmth was stopped by Augustus Hervey, who spoke to order, and called for the question; but young T. Townshend 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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