profligacy
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Profligacy, as well as mental fragility, was a work-on, as they say.
From BBC • Feb. 7, 2026
Profligacy ebbed and flowed with the economic and political tides.
From BusinessWeek • Mar. 31, 2011
Profligacy was arguably their only annoyance on Saturday, when Wolves might have been dismissed by a cricket score, only for Wayne Hennessey's excellence to maintain the visitors' vague interest.
From The Guardian • Feb. 14, 2011
Profligacy and public inefficiency had little to do with it.
From The Guardian • Mar. 21, 2010
Profligacy was, like the oak-leaf of the twenty-ninth of May, the badge of a cavalier and a High Churchman.
From Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron
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