profligacy

• “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

• “Only profligacy from the Italians and good goalkeeping from Igor Akinfeev prevented Inter increasing their lead.”

  BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition

• “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

• “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

• “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:

• “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

• “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.”

  The Huffington Post: Marshall Auerback: Germany Faces a Messy Break-up with the Euro

• “It is this knee-jerk aversion to what is viewed as fiscal profligacy which is at the core of the cult of zero imbalances.”

  Edward Harrison: The recession is over but the depression has just begun

• “A source close to Ovitz and Furman says they knew about Drabinsky's "profligacy" when they bought into Livent, but not about the allegedly murky bookkeeping.”

  Newsweek: Fiasco On 42D Street

• “It is hard for me to imagine citizens watching this kind of profligacy while many are losing their homes and potentially their savings in either banks or money market funds.”

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