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Profligacy

Profligacy meaning

Careless wastefulness. | Shameless and immoral behaviour.

Example sentences (19)

Everton’s profligacy in the transfer market under Moshiri has left them in a precarious financial situation.

In August, I tactically went the iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond BuyWrite Strategy ETF (), as I felt the U.S. government's fiscal profligacy and rising global yields meant that the path of least resistance was up for long-term yields.

It’s a major concern for Warren Gatland: his side as currently constructed is short of collision winners in both defence and attack, which contributed to moments of profligacy that perhaps could have been expected of another side under new guidance.

The dollar’s status as the global reserve currency allows the U.S. to borrow and spend far more than it could otherwise, leading to fiscal profligacy akin to that found in some oil-rich nations.

By buying junk bonds, the Fed has created a proverbial “” for those investors whose risk-taking had gotten out of control but now may not face the consequences for their profligacy.

In another era — ancient Rome, perhaps, or 18th-century France — such profligacy might have been interpreted as the last gasp of a blinkered privileged class before the revolution.

At the other end, substitute Izzy Akinade was also culpable of profligacy, failing to beat Kearns from point-blank range.

He noted that if financial profligacy is allowed to go unchecked, Bauchi state will one day be reduced to the status of a glorified local government.

So, why this profligacy?

The second half was just like the first but the Golden Eaglets were to pay for their profligacy in front of goal.

But the Trumpite/GOP has brought guns and butter logrolling to a whole new level of fiscal profligacy.

Clarity would be useful on when RBI should issue a warning on fiscal profligacy rather than be seen as interfering in the legitimate decisions of elected representatives…,” he said.

Much more of this profligacy, and he’ll be getting drummed out before he’s even started.

The bad news was that it was not the first time Silva’s players had been guilty of profligacy; it was a similar story in the home defeat by West Ham last weekend.

Unbeaten Everton have looked fluent as an attacking force with Richarlison, Theo Walcott, Gylfi Sigurdsson and Cenk Tosun combining well even if Walcott’s habitual profligacy has denied them the goals their creative play has deserved.

Beyond these initial prosecutions, the ecclesia attacked Pericles himself by asking him to justify his ostensible profligacy with, and maladministration of, public money.

Heavily in debt, due to the profligacy of his father, Francesco sacked Monteverdi and he spent a year in Mantua without any paid employment.

The ambitious new leader of the conservatives, Thucydides (not to be confused with the historian of the same name), accused Pericles of profligacy, criticizing the way he spent the money for the ongoing building plan.

The munus itself could be interpreted as pious necessity, but its increasing luxury corroded Roman virtue, and created an un-Roman appetite for profligacy and self-indulgence.