Profligacy in a sentence as a noun

In either way it could have gone back in 2010, the profligacy of the Greek state would not have been ignored.

It stuns me that the Tories have managed to convince so many people that the debt is all down to Labour and not the reckless profligacy of the banks.

IPO pyramids can be funded without central bank profligacy.

What's the general solution to that problem?And while I'm probably on the same page as you re: Chicago's profligacy, let's face it: Chicago needs to raise money.

Not only did we not heed his words of wisdom, but out of sheer bloodymindedness we voted the Gipper in and plunged headlong into the abyss of energy profligacy.

To me it just seems rooted in some cognitive bias about suffering and sacrifice; it sounds like you just can't believe things are this easy, that we have to suffer and be punished for our vile profligacy.

So could imperial overstretch and fiscal profligacy precipitating a collapse.

I suspect profligacy and indebtedness are criticized on the basis that many people who practice them come to regret it later, no matter how much of a good idea it seemed at the time, when they end up in poverty.

The word "profligacy" has taken on new meaning in the past several years, but keep in mind that many people believe the first .com bubble was in part a result of Alan Greenspan not raising rates quickly enough in response to a stock market that was overheating.

A small, predictable inflation is a little economic rule that says, "Actual goods and services today are this percentage better than a mere promise of goods and services one year from now."This sounds like it's immoral, in a way, encouraging consumption and profligacy.

Which describes domesticated cereal grains very well.>"There is an evolutionary aspect to it that nothing fattens up then kills americans like grain consumption"The obesity epidemic certainly owes its spread to the glycemic profligacy of overly-processed grain.

The **** side is that many proposals such as Basic Income proposals unconditionally rewarding people with above world-average wages simply for being Swiss citizens, or offers of free, permanent and decent housing for people who find themselves homeless in the right municipality, seem to increase the likelihood of position in life being a consequence of fortune rather than effort to take advantage of it...There might be a lot of luck in being born rich, and usually a lot of misfortune in being homeless, but there's also a lot of work and effort that goes into being just about solvent but not able to afford granite worktops, and its actually often people in those positions that are most inclined to gripe at perceived profligacy.

Profligacy definitions

noun

the trait of spending extravagantly

See also: extravagance prodigality

noun

dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure

See also: dissipation dissolution licentiousness looseness