His profligacy led to his bankruptcy. From LearnThat.org.
Only profligacy from the Italians and good goalkeeping from Igor Akinfeev prevented Inter increasing their lead. From Wordnik.com. [BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition] Reference
In the realm of coin profligacy, does the rise of the discarded dime mean that nickels were passed by?. From Wordnik.com. [David Finkle: These Days It's Dimes That Are a Dime a Dozen] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Letter-Bag of Lady Elizabeth Spencer-Stanhope — Volume 1] Reference
Africa's Constitutional Court, was an example of the "profligacy" of the government. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
It is this knee-jerk aversion to what is viewed as fiscal profligacy which is at the core of the cult of zero imbalances. From Wordnik.com. [Edward Harrison: The recession is over but the depression has just begun] Reference
I have to admit that the story evoked what was probably the intended reaction – of disgust at what "opposition MPs" have branded as "profligacy". From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-12-01] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Fiasco On 42D Street] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » The Ultimate Lottery Ticket] Reference
According to the political mag, Palin's "profligacy" enraged staffers behind closed doors. From Wordnik.com. [Socialite Life] Reference
This youth, as he grew up, contaminated his rule with every kind of profligacy and debauchery. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Necromancers] Reference
O'Hara's wastefulness demonstrated the kind of profligacy that Portsmouth will now forever be associated with. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Emigrants Of Ahadarra The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two] Reference
The £156 billion budget deficit does not arise from the 'profligacy' of working - or middle-class people but is the product of the crisis of capitalism. From Wordnik.com. [Socialist Party Main leads] Reference
No bribery is ever known to take place; nor are any houfes of gratuitous entertainment opened to adminifter to every kind of profligacy, intemperance, and venality. From Wordnik.com. [Libellus: or, A Bried Sketch of the Kingdom of Gotham] Reference
The federal government, we are told, has been bankrupted by the "profligacy" of social programs and the proportion of social resources allocated to the general population. From Wordnik.com. [Propeller Most Popular Stories] Reference
Expensive cars represented to Robert a kind of profligacy. From Wordnik.com. [s do something with this] Reference
This is the first step toward breaking the habit of profligacy. From Wordnik.com. [Biting The Handout That Feeds Me] Reference
Those are achievements in a nation notorious for profligacy and corruption. From Wordnik.com. [A Province That Works] Reference
Wastefulness, profligacy, or favoritism in public expenditures is criminal. From Wordnik.com. [US Presidential Inaugural Addresses] Reference
Thus, one rich team's profligacy forces even a wise owner to pay the freight. From Wordnik.com. [The End Of Baseball Again] Reference
The profligacy of Rome in its worst days was comparatively thrown into the shade. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World] Reference
But profligacy and spendthriftness have also been part of our cultural inheritance. From Wordnik.com. [Thrift Is the New Fashion] Reference
We cannot but denounce in the strongest terms, the profligacy of many married men. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
Years of suffering ignorance for the many -- years of riotous profligacy for the few!. From Wordnik.com. [The Spirit of Lafayette] Reference
But Bill Clinton has been credulous to a fault, and drawn attention to his intellectual profligacy. From Wordnik.com. [Slow Motion] Reference
After the profligacy of past years, Russia is now running a budget surplus of almost 3 percent of GDP. From Wordnik.com. [All That Glitters] Reference
Still, the government has placated the left with glaring instances of politically motivated profligacy. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call: Evaluating McCain] Reference
He cited several cases of "extravagance and profligacy" and pledged to stop "wasteful" use of government funds. From Wordnik.com. [Philippines' Aquino Seeks Public-Private Partnership] Reference
Mr. Lynch gives figures for 1875 and 1907 on financial matters and on the basis of these claims that the profligacy of. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918] Reference
Mr. DioGuardi has seen Congressional profligacy up close, but at age 70 he has been out of office for over two decades. From Wordnik.com. [Is There an Upset in the Making in New York?] Reference
While publicly supporting Palin, McCain's top advisers privately fumed at what they regarded as her outrageous profligacy. From Wordnik.com. [Hackers and Spending Sprees] Reference
We should not permit our great prosperity to lead us to reckless ventures in business or profligacy in public expenditures. From Wordnik.com. [US Presidential Inaugural Addresses] Reference
This person, thus shunned and slighted, seemed to grow desperate, and plunged into the lowest and most abandoned profligacy. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II.] Reference
This extraordinary man was long distinguished for the profligacy of his life, as well as for the native vigor of his mind and body. From Wordnik.com. [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference
In these recessionary times, allegations of profligacy and betrayed trust could leave donors feeling even less charitable than before. From Wordnik.com. [At United Way, Charity Began At Home] Reference
Ingrained habits of profligacy, both individual and collective, held out the prospect of long-term stagnation: no growth, no jobs, no fun. From Wordnik.com. [Andrew Bacevich: The End of (Military) History? The United States, Israel, and the Failure of the Western Way of War] Reference
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