Profligacy is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PROFLIGACY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the state of being profligate
• reckless extravagance or wastefulness in the use of resources
• licentious or dissolute behaviour
• the trait of spending extravagantly
• dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure
ADJECTIVE:
• The quality of state of being profligate; a profligate or very vicious course of life; a state of being abandoned in moral principle and in vice; dissoluteness.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the quality or state of being profligate

Words related to PROFLIGACY

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How to use PROFLIGACY in a sentence

• A life of profligacy had not rendered Louis wholly insensible to the superior attractions of innocence and virtue.
• From that springs self-will, division, quarrels, revolt, civil war, weakness, profligacy, and ruin to the whole people.
• But let us say no more of your profligacy and debauchery.
• Never, I grieve to say, was there a season when such universal profligacy prevailed as at present.
• But a more formidable champion than Blackmore had arisen, to scourge the profligacy of the theatre.
• There were two dukes of this name, father and son, both notorious for their profligacy and political unscrupulousness.
• His infamy, his profligacy, can proceed even from no perverted energy of character, and must therefore be associated with contempt.
• The principles he had set out with were unimpaired by the influence of continental profligacy.
• His nephew, however, had some positive good, and not a little of that light and reckless profligacy which is often mistaken for heart and spirit.
• He then started upon a course of unbridled profligacy.
• The age of deep profligacy, it was also the age of lofty talents, of bold enterprises, of great discoveries.
• Bockelson gave himself out as a prophet, and quickly gained such influence over the people that they were ready to support him in the utmost excesses of folly and profligacy.
• The interior of the little house was just such a dainty box as the art of the eighteenth century devised for the pretty profligacy of a fine gentleman.
• Anthony remonstrated with him on his want of principle, and pointed out the ruin which must follow such profligacy.
• I cannot help adding another instance of the profligacy of this town.
• But this growth has always been kept down by a generous or prodigal consumption, by ostentatious luxury, by profligacy, by pestilence, and by war.
• Society founded on superior force, on the most barbarous cruelty, on crime and mad profligacy, was corrupt beyond the power of words to describe.
• During the infatuation produced by this infamous scheme, luxury, vice, and profligacy, increased to a shocking degree of extravagance.
• He planned and pursued a life of deliberate profligacy.
• This period of riotous profligacy followed the happy conclusion for Athens of the Theban war.
• In all this there is nothing which for one moment implies approval of licentiousness, profligacy, unbridled self-indulgence.
• The Baron, gripped again by the clutch of profligacy, felt all his life concentrated in his eyes.
• This king, following in the footsteps of his predecessors, led a life of dissipation and profligacy.
• He particularly noticed the illegal intercourse between the sexes as an offence which encouraged a general profligacy of manners, and was in several ways injurious to society.
• For twenty-eight years, during a generation of profligacy and turmoil, cruelty and corruption, the Kirk and country were to reap what they had sown in 1638.

Similar words containing PROFLIGA without suffix cy

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