profligacy
Example Sentences
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The bond vigilantes, as first coined by Wall Street veteran Ed Yardeni, sniff out government largess, corporate profligacy, geopolitical tremors, and inflation risks long before other financial assets and respond in kind.
From Barron's • Dec. 24, 2025
AI companies are losing money at an epic pace, and the reasons go deeper than mere profligacy.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 14, 2025
First of all, literally weighing the value or profligacy of a piece of legislation by the ounce, as Musk proposes, is not exactly logical.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 24, 2024
There is no greater example of the profligacy of what has gone before.
From BBC • Dec. 7, 2024
The rope received the flame greedily; the transports of greed were succeeded by the profligacy of utmost generosity; and soon the whole store partook.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
